{"product_id":"the-red-italians-of-monfalcone-everyday-fascism-communist-horizons-and-the-migration-of-an-italian-border-community-beyond-the-iron-curtain-hardback-9780299356101","title":"The Red Italians of Monfalcone; Everyday Fascism, Communist Horizons, and the Migration of an Italian Border Community Beyond the Iron Curtain (Hardback) 9780299356101","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Red Italians of Monfalcone\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEveryday Fascism, Communist Horizons, and the Migration of an Italian Border Community Beyond the Iron Curtain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuke Gramith (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299356101\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e378 pages, 4 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 3 maps - 2 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.654 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“An original study, methodologically and historiographically, based on extensive and impressive primary research.” - John Foot, author of \u003ci\u003eBlood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Enriches a page of Cold War history on the southeastern borders of Europe. A multiethnic, working-class harbor, Monfalcone soon became an antifascist town and a communist bastion troubled by internal political conflicts and marked by Italian exodus and counterexodus. With an innovative approach to archives and oral history, Gramith writes a new chapter of the long-standing Adriatic question.” - Patrizia Dogliani, Historian, University of Bologna\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBetween 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Red Italians of Monfalcone\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Note on Place-Names \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part I. Fascism and Defascistization in Monfalcone: The Everyday Perspective \u003cbr\u003e 1. “\u003cbr\u003eEveryday Fascism”\u003cbr\u003e and Its Discontents \u003cbr\u003e 2. Envisioning “\u003cbr\u003eDefascistization”\u003cbr\u003e amid Civil War \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Arrival of the AMG and the Resurgence of Everyday Fascism \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part II. Monfalcone in Turmoil: Defascistization and Pro-Yugoslavism After 1945 \u003cbr\u003e 4. Myth and Mobilization in Spring 1946 \u003cbr\u003e 5. Flailing Forward: Evolutions in the Myth of Yugoslavia and Contradictions \u003cbr\u003e in the Struggle Against Everyday Fascism \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Defeat of “\u003cbr\u003eMonfalcone Antifascista”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part III. Monfalconesi on the Move \u003cbr\u003e 7: “\u003cbr\u003eEveryone to Yugoslavia”\u003cbr\u003e or “\u003cbr\u003eNo One to Yugoslavia”\u003cbr\u003e? The Controesodo of \u003cbr\u003e 1947 \u003cbr\u003e 8. The Limits of Liberation in the New Yugoslavia \u003cbr\u003e 9. \u003ci\u003eControesodo\u003c\/i\u003e, Cold War, Iron Curtain \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Commonly Used Italian Terms \u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Organizations and Political Parties \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Monfalconese Emigration by the Numbers \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685488587032,"sku":"9780299356101","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-red-italians-of-monfalcone-everyday-fascism-communist-horizons-and-the-migration-of-an-italian-border-community-beyond-the-iron-curtain-hardback-9780299356101","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}