The red Italians of Monfalcone : everyday fascism, communist horizons, and the migration of an Italian border community beyond the Iron Curtain / Luke Gramith

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gramith, Luke, Author.

Series:

George L. Mosse series in the history of European culture, sexuality, and ideas http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/bba15c0c-ddfe-8d76-cc42-09a03af986b2

George L. Mosse series in the history of European culture, sexuality, and ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism--Italy--Monfalcone--History.

Fascism.

Immigrants--Yugoslavia.

Immigrants.

Italians--Yugoslavia.

Italians.

Monfalcone (Italy)--History--20th century.

Monfalcone (Italy).

Yugoslavia--Emigration and immigration.

Yugoslavia.

Emigration and immigration.

Italy--Monfalcone.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Between 1946 and 1948, roughly five thousand ethnic Italians from the northern Adriatic shipbuilding town of Monfalcone relocated to the newly communist Yugoslavia. This rare case of eastward Cold War migration demonstrates how ordinary people conceived of liberation during the transitional years between World War II and the early Cold War—a time when Monfalcone was both the object of competing Italian and Yugoslav territorial claims and the subject of Anglo-American military occupation. In The Red Italians of Monfalcone, Luke Gramith undertakes a deep and detailed analysis—based on archival sources in Italy, Slovenia, and the United States—of how the Monfalconesi came to understand Fascism and communism through everyday experience and how those emergent ideologies affected and were affected by their migration. In the course of his analysis, Gramith also examines the failure of “defascistization” and how it fueled strong (but ultimately unsuccessful) pro-Yugoslav and communist movements"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Everyday fascism and its discontents

Envisioning defascistization amid civil war

The arrival of the AMG and the resurgence of everyday fascism

Myth and mobilization in spring 1946

Flailing forward : evolutions in the myth of Yugoslavia and contradictions in the struggle against everyday fascism

The defeat of “Monfalcone antifascista”

“Everyone to Yugoslavia” or “No one to Yugoslavia”? The controesodo of 1947

The limits of liberation in the new Yugoslavia

Controesodo, Cold War, Iron Curtain

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 2, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Gramith, Luke Red Italians of Monfalcone

ISBN:

9780299356132

0299356132

OCLC:

1616683166

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license