Description |
1 online resource (458 pages) : illustrations |
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 |
Summary |
This book covers the full story of the Ustasha, a fascist movement in Croatia, from its historic roots up to its downfall. The two authors sought answers to questions that touch the heart of the issue: In what international context did Ustasha terrorism grow and develop? How could the movement settle to power and exterminate hundreds of thousands of innocents? Who was its leader, Ante Pavelić? A shrewd politician, able to exploit for his independent project Mussolini's imperial ambitions, Hitler's panGerman aims, the antiBolshevism of the Holy See and of the Western bloc? Or was he, consciousl |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 15, 2022) |
Subject |
Pavelić, Ante, 1889-1959.
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SUBJECT |
Pavelić, Ante, 1889-1959 fast |
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Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija
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SUBJECT |
Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Croatia
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Atrocities
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Politics and government
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SUBJECT |
Croatia -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004486
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Croatia
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cingolani, Giorgio, author.
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Vargiu, Riccardo James, translator.
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LC no. |
2017054341 |
ISBN |
9789633862070 |
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9633862078 |
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