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Title
Romanian Counterinsurgency and its Global Context, 1944-1962.
ISBN
9783319323794
3319323792
3319323784
9783319323787
Publication Details
Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (114 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-32379-4. doi
Call Number
D1-DX301
Dewey Decimal Classification
900
Summary
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 ℓ́ℓhearts and mindsℓ́ℓ approaches, crushed internal rebels in post-1945 campaigns. Andrei Miroiuℓ́ℓs research has been published in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Perspectives in Politics and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Palgrave pivot.
Acknowledgements; Contents; chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; chapter 2: Western Imperial Counterinsurgency, 1945-1962; Notes; chapter 3: A Small Rebellion; The Context of the Resistance; A Typology of Rebel Groups; Notes; chapter 4: Intelligence and Intelligence Operations; Notes; chapter 5: Military Operations and Population Control; Military Operations; The Elimination of Rebel Groups; Population Control, Revolts and Deportations; Notes; chapter 6: Conclusion.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, imperial powers battled armed opponents in territories they controlled, be they far-flung outposts of empire or territories much closer to home. It did not matter that they were countries with centuriesAppendix; Bibliography; Index.
