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A civil war : a history of the Italian resistance / Claudio Pavone ; translated by Peter Levy with the assistance of David Broder; edited with an introduction by Stanislao G. Pugliese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pavone, Claudio.
- Standardized Title:
- Guerra civile. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italy--Politics and government--1943-1947.
- Italy.
- Politics and government.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Italy.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 744 page ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Verso, 2013.
- Contents:
- 1 The Choice
- The Collapse 5
- A Clear and Difficult Choice 29
- Betrayal 53
- 2 The Legacy of the Fascist War
- Wishing for and Fearing Defeat 77
- The Uncertain Motivations of the Combatants 95
- The Repudiation of the Royal Army 117
- 3 Paths to a New Institutionalisation
- Militarisation and Its Limits 149
- Relations with the Parties 180
- 4 The Patriotic War
- Regaining National Identity 205
- The Traditional Allies 229
- The Rediscovered Enemy 251
- 5 The Civil War
- A Controversial Definition 269
- The Reappearance of the Fascists 274
- The Anti-Fascists' Attitude to the Civil War 301
- The Main Enemy: The Fascists or the Germans? 320
- The Catholics and the Civil War 338
- The European Civil War 362
- 6 The Class War
- Class, Nation, Anti-Fascism 375
- Workers and Workers' Representation 390
- Political Struggles and Economic Struggles 401
- Struggle in Society and the Struggle for Survival 442
- Class Struggle and Armed Struggle 456
- The Myth of the USSR 482
- 7 Violence
- The Problem of Violence in the Context of War 495
- Resistance Violence and Fascist Violence 497
- Self-Discipline and the Organisation of Violence: The Punitive System 536
- Reprisals and Counter-Reprisals 568
- Urban Guerrilla Warfare and the GAPS 588
- Insurrectional Violence 603
- 8 Politics and Future Expectations
- Politics and Morality 615
- Public and Private 621
- Relations Between the Generations 656
- Reckoning with the Past 668
- The Sense of the Future 686
- The Return 697.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Guerra civile. Torino : Bollati Boringhieri, 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781844677504
- 1844677508
- OCLC:
- 711052049
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