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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811129403321

Autore

Adriano Pino

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Central European University Press, , [2018]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018

©[2018]

ISBN

963-386-207-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 pages)

Disciplina

949.72/02092

B

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Croatia

Croatia Politics and government 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.