The Utopia of terror : life and death in wartime Croatia /
The essays in The Utopia of Terror provide new perspectives on the relationship between the politics of construction and destruction in the wartime Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) ruled by the fascist Ustasha movement. Bringing together established historians of the Ustasha regime and an em...
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| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Rochester studies in East and Central Europe ;
v. 15. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: utopia, terror, and everyday experience in the Ustasha State / Rory Yeomans
- Part I. Terror as everyday experience, economic system, and social practice
- Anti-Semitism and economic regeneration: the Ustasha regime and the nationalization of Jewish property and business in Sarajevo / Dallas Michelbacher
- Ordinary people, extraordinary times: everyday life in Karlovac under Ustasha rule / Filip Erdeljac
- The engine room of a new Ustasha consciousness: cinema, terror, and ideological refashioning / Rory Yeomans
- Honor, shame, and warrior values: the anthropology of Ustasha violence / Radu Harald Dinu
- Part II. Incarnating a new religion, national values, and youth
- Apostles, saints? Days, and mass mobilization: the sacralization of politics in the Ustasha State / Stipe Kljai
- Between the racial state and the Christian rampart: Ustasha ideology, Catholic values, and national purification / Irina Ognyanova
- Envisioning the "other" east: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Muslims, and modernization in the Ustasha State / Nada Kisi-Kolanovi
- "To be eternally young means to be an Ustasha": youth organizations as incubators of a new youth and new future / Goran Miljan
- Part III. Terror, utopia, and the Ustasha State in comparative perspective
- Forging brotherhood and unity: war propaganda and transitional justice in Yugoslavia, 1941-48 / Tomislav Duli
- Recontextualizing the Fascist precedent: the Ustasha movement and the transnational dynamics of interwar Fascism / Aristotle Kallis
- Epilogue: ordinary people between the national community and everyday terror / Rory Yeomans.
