The Red Italians of Monfalcone

Everyday Fascism, Communist Horizons, and the Migration of an Italian Border Community Beyond the Iron Curtain

von Luke Gramith

378 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Between 1946 and 1948, roughly 5,000 ethnic Italians from the northern Adriatic shipbuilding town of Monfalcone relocated to the newly communist Yugoslavia. This rare case of eastward Cold War migration demonstrates how ordinary people conceived of liberation during the transitional years between World War II and the early Cold War—a time when Monfalcone was both the object of competing Italian and Yugoslav territorial claims and the subject of Anglo-American military occupation. In The Red Italians of Monfalcone, Luke Gramith undertakes a deep and detailed analysis—based on archival sources in Italy, Slovenia, and the United States—of how the Monfalconesi came to understand fascism and communism through everyday experience, and how those emergent ideologies affected and were affected by their migration. In the course of his analysis, Gramith also examines the failure of “defascistization” and how it fueled strong (but ultimately unsuccessful) pro-Yugoslav and communist movements.

• Reihe: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Kalte Kriege und Stellvertreterkonflikte
• ISBN: 9780299356101
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.05.2026
• Größe: 232 x 155 mm
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press