resistance - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:23:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg resistance - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 27 Europe’s Civil Wars, 1941–1949 https://historylab.es/27-europes-civil-wars-1941-1949/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=27-europes-civil-wars-1941-1949 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:47:44 +0000 https://historylab.es/27-europes-civil-wars-1941-1949/ Civil Wars in Europe

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]]> A number of the conflicts that wracked European countries under Axis-power occupation during the Second World War can be understood as civil wars. This analytical prism should be seen as complementing rather than replacing the more conventional pairing of collaboration and resistance. The three European cases from this period that best fit conventional notions of civil war in terms of the intensity and duration of fighting among co-nationals are Greece, Yugoslavia, and Italy. A comparative analysis can yield insights into the complex interplay of historical continuities and ruptures, and of nationalist and internationalist frames of reference, in shaping the agendas and choices of participants in these violent struggles.

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