“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization

This article advances an interdisciplinary and multifactorial socio-cultural approach to the fascistization of the Ustaša in interwar Yugoslavia, leading to terrorism and racial cleansing. It concentrates on the life-trajectories of Mijo Babić and Zvonimir Pospišil, two nationalist activists notorio...

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Authors: Iordachi, Constantin 1970- (Author) ; Miljan, Goran (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 8, Pages: 1704-1723
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