"everyday Fascism"
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Author_Luke Gramith
borderlands history
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Cold War in Eastern Europe
communism
defascistization
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everyday history
fascism
Iron Curtain
Italy
Marshal Tito
microhistory
migration
Mussolini
surveillance state
Yugoslav Communist Party
Yugoslavia
Product details
- ISBN 9780299356101
- Weight: 654g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2026
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
Luke Gramith is an independent scholar and a coauthor (with William I. Brustein) of Antisemitism Without Jews in Germany, France, and the US: Phantom Enemies.
