The state is always right, even when it's wrong... These novellas reconstruct the destinies of people found in the archives, most of them believers in socialism or communism ending up tortured and killed by the systems - the revolution eating it's own children.
The narrator voice is interesting (and adds a meta commentary to the stories) as are the destinies described - and that this could be published in 76 underlines how apart Yugoslavia was from the rest of the eastern bloc.