Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Orietta Moscarda Oblak
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/287 Language Italian
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DOI 10.3280/IC287-oa2
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This article analyzes the issue of the options for Italian citizenship made available by the Peace Treaty for Italians living in territories annexed to Yugoslavia. Based on former Yugoslav sources now available in Croatian archives, this article proposes a different interpretation from the one offered by national historiographies. In particular, it offers an analysis from the inside of the decision-making process of various Yugoslav bodies, in order to explore their assumptions, articulations, evolution and contradictions. The article discusses the overall policy of “popular power” toward the Italian population, which was marked by profound contradictions between stated objectives and repressive practices. It then analyzes the impact of the Cominform crisis on the territory, which brought about a new emergency for the regime, just when the crisis linked to the definition of the border with Italy had terminated. In relation to these two simultaneous phenomena, Yugoslav authorities reacted using repressive measures and introducing a policy of violence, which determined and led to the so-called population options, and to a series of migration waves of optants, exiles or “esuli”.
Keywords: Yugoslavia, Istra, Treaty of Peace (1947), Popular power, Options, Kominform
Orietta Moscarda Oblak, La crisi istriana del secondo dopoguerra: dalle opzioni al Cominform (1947-1951) in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 287/2018, pp , DOI: 10.3280/IC287-oa2