Suvin's ?X-Ray' of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism
Suvin's Splendour, Misery and Possibilities is a landmark contribution to the scholarship on the socialist experiments of the twentieth century that should be of particular interest to all those unconvinced by the "a priori tenet of Cold War ideology...that a plebian communist revolution must necessarily end in catastrophe."