The Utopia of Terror - Life and Death in Wartime Croatia

Offers a complex consideration of the relationship of mass terror and utopianism under the fascist government of wartime Croatia.

List of contents

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Introduction: Utopia, Terror, and Everyday Experience in the Ustasha State - Rory Yeomans

Part One: Terror as Everyday Experience, Economic System, and Social Practice
1. Anti-Semitism and Economic Regeneration: The Ustasha Regime and the Nationalization of Jewish Property and Business in Sarajevo - Dallas Michelbacher
2. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Everyday Life in Karlovac under Ustasha Rule - Filip Erdeljac
3. The Engine Room of a New Ustasha Consciousness: Cinema, Terror, and Ideological Refashioning - Rory Yeomans
4. Honor, Shame, and Warrior Values: The Anthropology of Ustasha Violence - Radu Harald Dinu

Part Two: Incarnating a New Religion, National Values, and Youth
5. Apostles, Saints' Days, and Mass Mobilization: The Sacralization of Politics in the Ustasha State - Stipe Kljaic
6. Between the Racial State and the Christian Rampart: Ustasha Ideology, Catholic Values, and National Purification - Irina Ognyanova
7. Envisioning the "Other" East: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Muslims, and Modernization in the Ustasha State - Nada Kisic-Kolanovic
8. "To Be Eternally Young Means to Be an Ustasha": Youth Organizations as Incubators of a New Youth and New Future - Goran Miljan

Part Three: Terror, Utopia, and the Utasha State in Comparative Perspective
9. Forging Brotherhood and Unity: War Propaganda and Transitional Justice in Yugoslavia, 1941-48 - Tomislav Dulic
10. Recontextualizing the Facist Precedent: The Ustasha Movement and the Transnational Dynamics of Interwar Facism - Aristotle Kallis
Epilogue: Ordinary People between the National Community and Everyday Terror - Rory Yeomans

Appendix: The Origins and Ideology of the Ustasha Movement
List of Contributors
Index

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Rory Yeomans

Product details

• Authors: Filip Erdeljac, Aristotle Kallis, Dallas Michelbacher, Goran Miljan, Rory Yeomans
• Assisted by: Rory Yeomans (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2015
• EAN: 9781580465458
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-545-8
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 164 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 676 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe; Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe; Rochester Studies in East and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Osteuropa, Kroatien, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Europäische Geschichte, Jugoslawien