Anti-Axis Resistance in Southeastern Europe, 1939-1945 : : Forms and Varieties / / John Paul Newman, Ljubinka Skodric, and Rade Ristanovic.

• Superior document: Balkan Studies Library ; Volume 32
• VerfasserIn: Newman, John Paul, 1978-; Škodrić, Ljubinka, 1975-; Ristanović, Rade, 1983-
• TeilnehmendeR: Škodrić, Ljubinka, 1975-; Ristanović, Rade, 1983-
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Brill Sch ö ningh,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Balkan studies library ; Volume 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages) :; illustrations.

This innovative book explores the complexities and levels of resistance amongst the populations of Southeastern Europe during the Second World War. It provides a comparative and transnational approach to the histories of different resistance movements in the region, examining the factors that contributed to their emergence and development, their military and political strategies, and the varieties of armed and unarmed resistance in the region. The authors discuss ethical choices, survival strategies, and connections across resistance movements and groups throughout Southeastern Europe. The aim is to show that to properly understand anti-Axis resistance in the region during the Second World War historians must think beyond conventional and traditional national histories that have tended to dominate studies of resistance in the region. And they must also think of anti-Axis resitance as encompassing more than just military forms. The authors are mainly scholars based in the regions in question, many of whom are presenting their original research for the first time to an English language readership. The book includes contributions dealing with Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Mapping the History of the Resistance in Western Europe -- 2. Mapping the History of the Resistance in Southeastern Europe -- Part I. Conditions and Circumstances of the Armed Resistance -- 3. The USSR and Resistance Movements in Yugoslavia 1941-1942 -- 4. U.S. Policy toward Yugoslav Resistance 1941-1945 -- 5. Friends or Foes? Serbian State Guard Towards Resistance Movements in Occupied Serbia -- 6. The National Components of the Losses of the Partisan Movement of Yugoslavia from the Territory of the Independent State of Croatia -- 7. Russian Émigrés in the Resistance Movement in the Territories of Yugoslavia, 1941-1945 - The Scale, Range and Results of Their Activities -- Part II. Resistance Movements -- 8. 'Liberated Territory' vs. 'Battle of Annihilation': Partisan and German Strategies in Yugoslavia 1941-1945 -- 9. Aspects of the German Perspective of Greek Resistance During the Occupation Period 1941-1944 -- 10. The Albanian Resistance During the Second World War 1939-1944 -- 11. The Armed Resistance in Macedonia as a Part of the Anti-Fascist War 1941-1944 -- 12. The Bulgarian Army Against the Bulgarian Resistance Movement 1941-1944 -- 13. 'Blood for Blood, Death for Death'? Media Response to War Violence in Slovenia During the Second World War -- Part III. Unarmed Resistance -- 14. The Tiyul: Rescuing Jews by Smuggling Across the Hungarian-Romanian Border -- 15. Forms of Nonviolent Resistance of the Serbian Middle Class in Occupied Serbia 1941-1944 -- 16. The Practice of Everyday Resistance: Ordinary People, Opposition and Terror in Wartime Croatia -- 17. Girding the 'Sword of the Spirit': Sectarian Resistance in Nazi-Allied Romania -- Postface -- 18. Resistance in Southeastern Europe: Size, Scope, and Stakes -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.