Commencing from the assumed sociality of individual remembering, the article examines the way in which two generations recall the 1980s: the generation that was then middle-aged and the generation that was in different stages of adolescence. The final decade of Yugoslav socialism was a time of several different crises in various social fields on one hand and a time of a symbolic revolution in cultural forms and practices (the rise of alternative culture) on the other. The focus of the research is on two broad research questions: a) the constitution of hegemonic memory about the definition of that specific time; and b) the generational differences in mnemonic narratives concerning that period. We are interested in how various elements of the hegemonic “definition of time” are articulated in the individual remembering of the 1980s, i.e., the time that marked the beginning of the end of the socialist project. Further, we consider how these elements potentially contradict each other (e.g., nostalgic vs. hegemonic revisionist interpretation).
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