Nationalism and Terror Ante Pavelić and Ustashe Terrorism from Fascism to the Cold War / Pino Adriano and Giorgio Cingolani ; translated by Riccardo James Vargiu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adriano, Pino, author.

Cingolani, Giorgio, author.

Contributor:

Vargiu, Riccardo James, translator.

Standardized Title:

Via dei conventi. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Pavelić, Ante, 1889-1959.

Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Croatia.

World War, 1939-1945.

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

Croatia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

New York : Central European University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English and Italian.

Summary:

This book covers the full story of the Ustasha, a fascist movement in Croatia, from its historic roots to its downfall. The authors address key questions: In what international context did Ustasha terrorism grow and develop? How did this movement rise to power, and then exterminate hundreds of thousands of innocents? Who was Ante Pavelić, its leader? Was he a shrewd politician, able to exploit for his independent project Mussolini's imperial ambitions, Hitler's pan-German aims, and the anti-Bolshevism of the Holy See and the Western bloc? Or was he, consciously or not, a pawn in other hands, in a complex international scenario where Croatia was only arena among many? And after the movement's collapse, how were several of the most prominent Ustasha leaders able to evade capture by Tito’s victorious army? The book places the appearance of the Ustasha movement not only in the context of the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia but also in the wider perspective of the emergence of European fascism.

Contents:

The Ustashe movement from its origins to 1941

Origins

The kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and Italy

Under the Duce's wing

The regicide

From Turin to Zagreb

The Ustashe in power, 1941-45

The independent state of Croatia

The massacres of Serbs, Jews, and rRomani

Survival problems for the independent state

Crisis and the end of the Croatian state

The Ustashe and the Cold War, 1945-59

War criminals on the run

Camps and monasteries: the Ustashe return to italy

The anticommunist crusade

Toward the New World

The Ustashe in Argentina

Epilogue: The question of the Ustashe between Yugoslavia and the Vatican, 1952-72.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72099-4

963-386-207-8

9781003720997

OCLC:

1028219292