The Red Italians of Monfalcone
Everyday Fascism, Communist Horizons, and the Migration of an Italian Border Community Beyond the Iron Curtain
$189.81
- Hardcover
378 pages
- Release Date
19 May 2026
Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780299356101 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0299356108 |
| Author: | Luke Gramith |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Imprint: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 378 |
| Release Date: | 19 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas |
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“An original study, methodologically and historiographically, based on extensive and impressive primary research.” - John Foot, author of Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism “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
About The Author
Luke Gramith
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.
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