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Analyses the conflicts between imperial powers and nationalist rebellions after the second-world war
Investigates the crushing of the nationalist rebels by the communist Romanian government
Demonstrates how 'bullets, brains and barbed wire' were a preferred tactic to 'hearts and minds' in the approach to crushing rebels
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book analyses the nationalist rebellion which emerged in Romania following the Second World War. The first two decades after the end of the war were times of rebellion in imperial peripheries. Armed movements, sometimes communist but nearly always nationalist in orientation, rose in opposition to retreating or advancing imperial powers. One such armed revolt took place in Romania, pitting nationalist partisans against a communist government. This book is an analysis of how the authorities crushed this rebellion, set in the context of parallel campaigns fought in Europe and the Third World. It focuses on population control through censorship, propaganda and deportations. It analyses military operations, particularly patrols, checkpoints, ambushes and informed strikes. Intelligence operations are also discussed, with an emphasis on recruiting informants, on interrogation, torture and infiltration. Bullets, brains and barbwire, not “hearts and minds” approaches, crushed internal rebels in post-1945 campaigns.
Authors and Affiliations
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Bucharest, Romania
Andrei Miroiu
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romanian Counterinsurgency and its Global Context, 1944-1962
Authors: Andrei Miroiu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32379-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32378-7Published: 26 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81271-7Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32379-4Published: 15 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 112
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Modern Europe, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Military