Nationalism and terror : Ante Pavelic and Ustashe terrorism from fascism to the Cold War /
Ante Pavelic and Ustashe terrorism from fascism to the Cold War
Pino Adriano and Giorgio Cingolani ; translated by Riccardo James Vargiu.
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (458 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.