Tommaso Piffer
Tommaso Piffer is an assistant professor at the University of Udine. Before arriving at Udine he was Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, a Post doctoral fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College in Cambridge. His current project investigates the relations between the Big Three Allies and the European Resistance during the Second World War.
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The British and the Americans worked to stir up, support, control, and direct these resistance groups. London created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Washington the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), both of whom sent agents into occupied Europe to liaise directly with the guerilla groups. Through the Comintern, Moscow carefully coordinated the actions of the European communist parties with the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, which was acting for the first time as a key player in the arena of international relations.
The forests and the mountains where the partisans were fighting the Germans soon became a major part of the proxy war that the Big Three waged to shift the post-war geopolitical balance in their favour. Looking for the first time at the Big Three in a comparative study and spanning Europe from Yugoslavia to Poland, from Greece to France and Italy, this book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement. In so doing, Piffer deftly connects high political histories with history from below, making the book important reading for all those interested in the history of the war and cold war, communism and Resistance, and diplomacy and intelligence.
In line with Zaslavsky´s work and scholarly method, the book promotes new theoretical and methodological approaches to the concept of totalitarianism for understanding Soviet and East European societies, and the study of fascist and communist regimes in general.
Essays by P. Baehr, G. Orsina, V. Strada, V. Tismaneanu, E. Gentile, V. Pechatnov, O. Khlevniuk, A. Graziosi, I. Yazhborovskaia, D. Holloway, MT. Giusti, V. Vujačić, A. D’Amelia, L. Gudkov, G. Lapidus, M. Kramer.
Based on extensive unpublished documentation from British and American archives, this book analyzes Allied policy towards the Italian Resistance and the operations of the secret services behind the lines. Special attention has been given to controversial aspects, such as the policy towards the communist bands, the competition between British and American clandestine services and the agreement between the Office of Strategic Services and the Communist party in Italy.
Papers by Tommaso Piffer
The British and the Americans worked to stir up, support, control, and direct these resistance groups. London created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Washington the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), both of whom sent agents into occupied Europe to liaise directly with the guerilla groups. Through the Comintern, Moscow carefully coordinated the actions of the European communist parties with the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, which was acting for the first time as a key player in the arena of international relations.
The forests and the mountains where the partisans were fighting the Germans soon became a major part of the proxy war that the Big Three waged to shift the post-war geopolitical balance in their favour. Looking for the first time at the Big Three in a comparative study and spanning Europe from Yugoslavia to Poland, from Greece to France and Italy, this book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement. In so doing, Piffer deftly connects high political histories with history from below, making the book important reading for all those interested in the history of the war and cold war, communism and Resistance, and diplomacy and intelligence.
In line with Zaslavsky´s work and scholarly method, the book promotes new theoretical and methodological approaches to the concept of totalitarianism for understanding Soviet and East European societies, and the study of fascist and communist regimes in general.
Essays by P. Baehr, G. Orsina, V. Strada, V. Tismaneanu, E. Gentile, V. Pechatnov, O. Khlevniuk, A. Graziosi, I. Yazhborovskaia, D. Holloway, MT. Giusti, V. Vujačić, A. D’Amelia, L. Gudkov, G. Lapidus, M. Kramer.
Based on extensive unpublished documentation from British and American archives, this book analyzes Allied policy towards the Italian Resistance and the operations of the secret services behind the lines. Special attention has been given to controversial aspects, such as the policy towards the communist bands, the competition between British and American clandestine services and the agreement between the Office of Strategic Services and the Communist party in Italy.