The Chetnik Movement and the Yugoslav Resistance

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3339-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 151 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milazzo, Matteo J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Bürgerkriege
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Invasion und Besatzung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1. The Axis Powers and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
Chapter 2. The Mihailovic Movement in Serbia, 1941
Chapter 3. The Serb Nationalist Movement in the Italian Occupation Zone
Chapter 4. The Formation of the Chetnik Movement
Chapter 5. The Dilemma of Tactical Collaboration
Chapter 6. Operation Weiss
Chapter 7. The Crisis of the Chetnik Leadership
Chapter 8. Collaboration and Defeat
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Milazzo, Matteo J
Matteo Milazzo earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He specialized in the History of Yugoslavia.