Patterns of violence behind the lines in Europe's civil wars / Francisco J. Leira-Castiñeira, John Sakkas, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leira Castiñeira, Francisco J., 1987- editor.

Sakkas, John, editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

World histories of crime, culture and violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil war--Europe--History--20th century.

Civil war.

Violence--Europe--History--20th century.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 384 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2025]

Contents:

1. Introduction: Patterns of Violence Behind the Lines in Europes Civil Wars

Part I. Logics of Rearguard Violence

2. Introduction - The Other Twenty Years Crisis: Europes Civil Wars

3. Civil War in Russia: Violence and People

4. The Finnish Civil War: The Road to Political Violence, 1918

5. The Irish Civil War in Comparative Perspective

6. Logics of Repressive Violence behind the Lines in the Spanish Civil War (and its Aftermath)

7. Collaborators vs. Resistance Fighters: The Spiral of Violence in France during the Occupation,1940-1944

8. The Move from Words to Deeds: The Logic of Violence against Inner Enemies and Civilians in the Italian Civil War, 1943-1945

9. Violence in the Greek Civil War, 1943-1949

10. The Courses, Causes, and Consequences of Chetnik Violence: Yugoslavia, 1941-1945

Part II. Women in War. Victims, Militias and Perpetrators

11. Introduction - Women in Wars

12. Gender, Violence, and the Russian Civil War in Contemporary Russian Memory

13. A Woman as an Enemy: The Finnish Civil War, Gender Roles, and Violence

14. Violence and Indiscipline? The Treatment of Militant Anti-Treaty Women by the National Army during the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923

15. The Enemys Women or Women Enemies? Violence against Women during the Spanish Civil War

16. Civil War as Fratricidal Conflict? Re-examining the Case of Violence against Women in Liberation France

17. Women and Violence: Victims and Perpetrators during the Italian Civil War, 1943-1945

18. Women at the Symplegades of the Greek Civil War

19. Partisans vs. Chetniks: Gender Policies, Combat and Violence in Yugoslavia, 19411945.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 30, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version :

Print version: Leira-Castiñeira, Francisco J. Patterns of Violence Behind the Lines in Europe's Civil Wars

ISBN:

9783031969850

3031969855

Publisher Number:

90104141948

CIPO000266645

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.