Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 446 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
1322025452
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9781322025452
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9780822977933
Series Statement:
Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Content:
The fascist Ustasha regime and its militias carried out a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing that killed an estimated half million Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and ended only with the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. In Visions of Annihilation, Rory Yeomans analyzes the Ustasha movement's use of culture to appeal to radical nationalist sentiments and legitimize its genocidal policies. He shows how the movement attempted to mobilize poets, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and intellectuals as purveyors of propaganda and visionaries of a utopian society. Meanwhile, newspapers
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-435) and index
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Generation of Struggle: Ustasha Students and the Construction of a New Elite; Chapter 2. Annihilate the Old! The Cult of Youth and the Problem of National Regeneration; Chapter 3. Merciless Warriors and Militant Heroines: Making a New Ustasha Man and Woman; Illustrations; Chapter 4. Social Justice and the Campaign for Taste: Cultural Values after the Revolution of Blood; Chapter 5. Between Annihilation and Regeneration: Literature, Language, and National Revolution
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Chapter 6. "An Unceasing Sea of Blood and Victims": The Cultural Politics of Martyrdom and Moral RebirthConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1322025444
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822961925
Additional Edition:
Print version Visions of Annihilation : The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941-1945
Language:
English
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