Choosing Their Own Nation: National and Political Identities of the Italian POWs in Russia, 1914-21

Simone Attilio Bellezza

Choosing Their Own Nation: National and Political Identities of the Italian POWs in Russia, 1914-21

Simone Attilio Bellezza

Department of Humanities

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Abstract

This chapter describes how the Trentine POWs in Russia during World War I reacted to the requests of choosing a fatherland during their captivity from 1914 to 1921. The processes of denationalization and re-nationalization that characterised the events of WWI are analysed through the reading of official documents as well as private correspondence and personal diaries writtew by the prosoners themselves.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	World War I in Central and Eastern Europe. Politics, Conflict and Military Experience
Publisher	I. B. Tauris
Pages	119-137
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78831-187-8
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Nationalism
POWS
Russia
Trentine
World War I

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