An investigation of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's evolving--and ultimately failed--attempts to transform social and cultural values, mores, and behavior by means of persuasion in the first nine years of its rule.

Introduction , Part One , Setting the Stage , Tools of the Trade: The Apparatus for Cultural Change , Problems of Persuasion , Part Two , Taking Power: Cultural Manipulation and Revolutionary Change , Constructing the Framework: Mobilization and Control , The Cultural Transformation Begins , The Cultural Transformation Delayed , The Cultural Transformation Transformed , The Cultural Transformation Abandoned , Conclusion