In this Book
- The Chetnik Movement and the Yugoslav Resistance
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Originally published in 1975. This book fills a gap in the historical knowledge of wartime Yugoslavia. Focusing on the Chetnik movement provides a better understanding of the various ways that important segments of the population, including members of the Yugoslav officer corps and Serb civilians, perceived and responded to the occupation. The partisans' ultimate success does not conceal the fact that during the greater part of the war, several armed groups, owing at least some sort of allegiance to Mihailovic, chose very different courses of resistance. The overriding question for Milazzo is how a movement whose leadership was in no sense pro-Axis found itself progressively drawn into a hopelessly compromising set of relationships with the occupation authorities and the Quisling regime. What was it about the situation in occupied Yugoslavia and the Serb officers' response to that state of affairs that prevented them from carrying out serious anti-Axis activity or engaging in effective collaboration? The author attends to the emergence, organization, and failure of the Chetniks, the regional particularities of the movement, and Mihailovic's efforts to establish his own authority over the widely scattered non-Communist armed formations. The author also discusses the domestic opposition to Tito and the complex reality of the national and political civil war in Yugoslavia.
Table of Contents
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- V. The Dilemma of Tactical Collaboration
- pp. 90-112
- VI. Operation Weiss
- pp. 113-139
- VII. The Crisis of the Chetnik Leadership
- pp. 140-161
- VIII. Collaboration and Defeat
- pp. 162-181
- Conclusion
- pp. 182-187
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 188-203
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421433417
Related ISBN(s)
9780801815898, 9781421433394, 9781421433400
MARC Record
OCLC
649768510
Pages
226
Launched on MUSE
2019-10-07
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND