RT Book
T1 Croatian radical separatism and diaspora terrorism during the Cold War
T2 Central European studies
A1 Tokić, Mate Nikola 1973-
LA English
PP West Lafayette, Indiana
PB Purdue University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1696937914
AB Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: Our Position Is Clear -- Chapter 1: There Can Be No More Discussion, 1948-1956 -- Chapter 2: In Contradiction to Sociopolitical Norms, 1956-1960 -- Chapter 3: The Facts as They Exist, 1960-1962 -- Chapter 4: All Accounts Have Not Yet Been Settled, 1962-1969 -- Chapter 5: We Have Chosen No One but Ourselves, 1969-1972 -- Chapter 6: Simply, It Comes Down to This, 1972-1980 -- Epilogue: Fixated for Many Years on This Day, 1980-1991 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
AB "Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, numerous attempted and successful assassinations, two guerilla incursions into socialist Yugoslavia, and two airplane hijackings during the height of the Cold War. In Australia alone, Croatian separatists carried out no less than sixty-five significant acts of violence in one ten-year period. Diaspora Croats developed one of the most far-reaching terrorist networks of the Cold War and, in total, committed on average one act of terror every five weeks worldwide between 1962 and 1980. Tokić focuses on the social and political factors that radicalized certain segments of the Croatian diaspora population during the Cold War and the conditions that led them to embrace terrorism as an acceptable form of political expression. At its core, this book is concerned with the discourses and practices of radicalization-the ways in which both individuals and groups who engage in terrorism construct a particular image of the world to justify their actions. Drawing on exhaustive evidence from seventeen archives in ten countries on three continents-including diplomatic communiqués, political pamphlets and manifestos, manuals on bomb-making, transcripts of police interrogations of terror suspects, and personal letters among terrorists-Tokić tells the comprehensive story of one of the Cold War's most compelling global political movements"--
OP 277
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HN638.Z9
SN 9781557538932
SN 155753893X
SN 9781557538925
SN 1557538921
K1 Radicalism : Croatia : History : 20th century
K1 Political Violence : Croatia : History : 20th century
K1 Terrorism : Croatia : History : 20th century
K1 Nationalism : Croatia : History : 20th century
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Terrorism
K1 Autonomy and independence movements
K1 Nationalism
K1 Political Violence
K1 Politics and government
K1 Radicalism
K1 Terrorism
K1 Croatia
K1 History
K1 Croatia : History : Autonomy and independence movements
K1 Croatia : Politics and government : 1945-1990
K1 Electronic books
K1 Kroaten : Diaspora : Sozialwissenschaften : Separatismus : Terrorismus : Geschichte 1948-1991