He Who Does Not Serve Is Not Fit for a Wife
The Problems of Military Service and Late Socialist Masculinity in 1980s Yugoslavia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12428905 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marko Dumančić (0000-0001-8627-9564, Associate Professor, Department of History, Western Kentucky University https://dx.doi.org/1889 Bowling Green, KY USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-118 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1075-1262 • E-ISSN: 1876-3324 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.30965/18763324-bja10074 |
| OpenAlex | W4309086135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper advances two interrelated claims about late socialist order in the former Yugoslavia. First, the Yugoslav People’s Army ( JNA ), which had been a pillar of the Yugoslav state socialism, had to start justifying its character as it came to be defined as an outmoded and conservative institution. Second, it was increasingly difficult for the JNA leadership to attract men to its ranks while masculine ideals entered a period of flux. The urban and educated upper and middle-classes openly argued that the army was not living up to the many roles it was supposed to play. This study has important implications for studies of late socialism in Eastern Europe and the USSR as it indicates the dynamism of this period
Aesthetics · Character (mathematics · Communism · Dynamism · Economics · Epistemology · Institution · Masculinity · Order (exchange · Period (music · Pillar · Political science · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · Wife · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |