The utopia of terror : life and death in wartime Croatia /

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Imprint:Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
Description:vi, 323 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Rochester studies in East and Central Europe
Rochester studies in East and Central Europe.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10447615
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Other authors / contributors:Yeomans, Rory, editor, author.
ISBN:9781580465458 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1580465455 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: utopia, terror, and everyday experience in the Ustasha State / Rory Yeomans
  • Part I. Terror as everyday experience, economic system, and social practice
  • Anti-Semitism and economic regeneration: the Ustasha regime and the nationalization of Jewish property and business in Sarajevo / Dallas Michelbacher
  • Ordinary people, extraordinary times: everyday life in Karlovac under Ustasha rule / Filip Erdeljac
  • The engine room of a new Ustasha consciousness: cinema, terror, and ideological refashioning / Rory Yeomans
  • Honor, shame, and warrior values: the anthropology of Ustasha violence / Radu Harald Dinu
  • Part II. Incarnating a new religion, national values, and youth
  • Apostles, saints? Days, and mass mobilization: the sacralization of politics in the Ustasha State / Stipe Kljai
  • Between the racial state and the Christian rampart: Ustasha ideology, Catholic values, and national purification / Irina Ognyanova
  • Envisioning the "other" east: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Muslims, and modernization in the Ustasha State / Nada Kisi-Kolanovi
  • "To be eternally young means to be an Ustasha": youth organizations as incubators of a new youth and new future / Goran Miljan
  • Part III. Terror, utopia, and the Ustasha State in comparative perspective
  • Forging brotherhood and unity: war propaganda and transitional justice in Yugoslavia, 1941-48 / Tomislav Duli
  • Recontextualizing the Fascist precedent: the Ustasha movement and the transnational dynamics of interwar Fascism / Aristotle Kallis
  • Epilogue: ordinary people between the national community and everyday terror / Rory Yeomans.