Romanian Counterinsurgency and its Global Context, 1944-1962

This book analyses the nationalist rebellion which emerged inRomania following the Second World War. The first two decades after the end ofthe war were times of rebellion in imperial peripheries. Armed movements,sometimes communist but nearly always nationalist in orientation, rose inopposition to retreating or advancing imperial powers. One such armed revolttook place in Romania, pitting nationalist partisans against a communistgovernment. This book is an analysis of how the authorities crushed thisrebellion, set in the context of parallel campaigns fought in Europe and theThird World. It focuses on population control through censorship, propagandaand deportations. It analyses military operations, particularly patrols,checkpoints, ambushes and informed strikes. Intelligence operations are alsodiscussed, with an emphasis on recruiting informants, on interrogation, tortureand infiltration. Bullets, brains and barbwire, not "hearts and minds"approaches, crushed internal rebels in post-1945 campaigns.

List of contents

Introduction.- 1. A Small Rebellion, 1944-1958.- 2. Population Control, Revolts and Deportations.- 3. Intelligence and Intelligence Operations.- 4. Military Operations and the Elimination of Rebel Groups.- 5. One Counterinsurgency in a Sea of Others.

About the author

Andrei Miroiu’s research has been published in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Perspectives in Politics and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Product details

• Authors: Andrei Miroiu
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319812717
• ISBN: 978-3-31-981271-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 6 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 167 g
• Illustrations: VII, 112 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; C, History, European History, military history, Colonialism & imperialism, Second World War, imperialism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Europe—History—1492-, History of Military, Europe, Eastern—History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Russia—History, World War, 1939-1945, History of Modern Europe, History of World War II and the Holocaust