Visions of annihilation : the Ustasha regime and the cultural politics of fascism, 1941-1945 / Rory Yeomans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeomans, Rory, author.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies.

Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Croatia.

World War, 1939-1945.

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

Nationalism.

Croatia--History--1918-1945.

Croatia.

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

Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fascist Ustasha regime and its militias carried out a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing that killed an estimated half million Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and ended only with the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. In Visions of Annihilation, Rory Yeomans analyzes the Ustasha movement's use of culture to appeal to radical nationalist sentiments and legitimize its genocidal policies. He shows how the movement attempted to mobilize poets, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and intellectuals as purveyors of propaganda and visionaries of a utopian society. Meanwhile, newspapers, radio, and speeches called for the expulsion, persecution, or elimination of "alien" and "enemy" populations to purify the nation. He describes how the dual concepts of annihilation and national regeneration were disseminated to the wider population and how they were interpreted at the grassroots level. Yeomans examines the Ustasha movement in the context of other fascist movements in Europe. He cites their similar appeals to idealistic youth, the economically disenfranchised, racial purists, social radicals, and Catholic clericalists. Yeomans further demonstrates how fascism created rituals and practices that mimicked traditional religious faiths and celebrated martyrdom. Visions of Annihilation chronicles the foundations of the Ustasha movement, its key actors and ideologies, and reveals the unique cultural, historical, and political conditions present in interwar Croatia that led to the rise of fascism and contributed to the cataclysmic events that tore across the continent.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Generation of Struggle: Ustasha Students and the Construction of a New Elite

Chapter 2. Annihilate the Old! The Cult of Youth and the Problem of National Regeneration

Chapter 3. Merciless Warriors and Militant Heroines: Making a New Ustasha Man and Woman

Illustrations

Chapter 4. Social Justice and the Campaign for Taste: Cultural Values after the Revolution of Blood

Chapter 5. Between Annihilation and Regeneration: Literature, Language, and National Revolution

Chapter 6. "An Unceasing Sea of Blood and Victims": The Cultural Politics of Martyrdom and Moral Rebirth

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822977933

0822977931

OCLC:

867738690