The utopia of terror : life and death in wartime Croatia / edited by Rory Yeomans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yeomans, Rory, editor.

Series:

Rochester studies in East and Central Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.

Nationalism.

History.

Croatia--History--1918-1945.

Croatia.

World War, 1939-1945--Croatia.

World War, 1939-1945.

Croatia--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Politics and government.

Nationalism--Croatia--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 323 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction: utopia, terror, and everyday experience in the Ustasha State / Rory Yeomans

Part I. Terror as everyday experience, economic system, and social practice

Anti-Semitism and economic regeneration: the Ustasha regime and the nationalization of Jewish property and business in Sarajevo / Dallas Michelbacher

Ordinary people, extraordinary times: everyday life in Karlovac under Ustasha rule / Filip Erdeljac

The engine room of a new Ustasha consciousness: cinema, terror, and ideological refashioning / Rory Yeomans

Honor, shame, and warrior values: the anthropology of Ustasha violence / Radu Harald Dinu

Part II. Incarnating a new religion, national values, and youth

Apostles, saints? Days, and mass mobilization: the sacralization of politics in the Ustasha State / Stipe Kljai

Between the racial state and the Christian rampart: Ustasha ideology, Catholic values, and national purification / Irina Ognyanova

Envisioning the "other" east: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Muslims, and modernization in the Ustasha State / Nada Kisi-Kolanovi

"To be eternally young means to be an Ustasha": youth organizations as incubators of a new youth and new future / Goran Miljan

Part III. Terror, utopia, and the Ustasha State in comparative perspective

Forging brotherhood and unity: war propaganda and transitional justice in Yugoslavia, 1941-48 / Tomislav Duli

Recontextualizing the Fascist precedent: the Ustasha movement and the transnational dynamics of interwar Fascism / Aristotle Kallis

Epilogue: ordinary people between the national community and everyday terror / Rory Yeomans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781580465458

1580465455

OCLC:

926623416