Italijanska udeležba v drugi svetovni vojni in odporništvo kot državljanska vojna
The Italian Participation in the Second World War and its Resistance Movement as a Form of a Civil War
Author(s): Claudio PavoneSubject(s): Civil Society, Military history, Political history, Social history, Government/Political systems, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Sociology of Politics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Italy; Second World War; Civil war; Resistance; Fascism; Anti-Fascism;
Summary/Abstract: The author deals with the question whether the Italian resistance between 1943 and 1945 was actually a civil war. He concludes that the resistance was also, but not solely, a civil war within the historic framework of the Second World War. The conditions for the outbreak of this civil war were maturing from 1919-1922. It only spread in the central and the northern parts of Italy, which were occupied by the Germans and where Mussolini's Social Republic government was in power. The interpretation of the resistance as a civil war has, for a long time, been rejected by Italian historiography as well as public opinion. In the light of recent socio-historic research into the phenomenon of divided memory this attitude has gradually started to change.
Journal: Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino (before 1960: Prispevki za zgodovino delavskega gibanja)
- Issue Year: 40/2000
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 159-170
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Slovenian