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In her introduction to the themed cluster "Nationalism, (Anti-)Communism and Violence in the European Cold War," the author contextualizes the issue's research contributions on Greece, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. She introduces the methodological rationale and highlights what binds the three case studies together: They explore how nationalism was woven into Cold War societies. The authors employ, as analytical prisms, both physical and symbolic violence in order to visualize empirically the workings of nationalism in the service of both communism and anti-communism. Hitherto, few scholars have focused on the interconnections between nationalism, (anti-)communism, and violence in Cold War east central and southeastern Europe.

Abstract
Introducing this special issue on historiographies and debates on the Second World War in Southeastern Europe, the author reflects on the conditionalities of a better balancing of research agendas in terms of the interdependencies between local dynamics and wider scales—be they the regional, national and transnational, or global dimensions of the war. She draws attention to the role the European Union has played in crafting public history, in which processes of 'internationalizing' and of 'nationalizing' the past have been entangled. She concludes that Southeast Europeanists could greatly enhance international research agendas by taking the lead in fostering a bottom-up, multiscale, and multiperspective history of postimperial, nationalizing societies at war.

The port of Koper (It. Capodistria) in the Slovenian part of the Istrian peninsula was built in the second half of the 1950s as a socialist modernization project. In 1970, it witnessed the only violently escalating dockers' unrest in its socialist history. Using the personal archive of Danilo Petrinja, the port's second director, which has been preserved in the Regional Archive of Koper, the author takes a micro-historical approach to this incident, and views it at the historical moment in Yugoslavia between the student protests of 1968 and the 'Croatian spring' of 1971. She adds a perspective on the interconnectedness of the early 1970s and the late 1980s, when social unrest was an integral part of Yugoslavia's demise. The episode of public violence in the Yugoslav border city of Koper offers proof of the multi-layered nature of explanatory tropes: the border perspective from Koper is interwoven with the perspective of Yugoslavia as a whole, and a comparison with workers' violence in neighbouring Trieste during the same years adds yet another twist to a reassessment of the applicability of the Cold War framework to an examination of labour relations and violence.

Grenzregionen verfügen über ein reiches Potenzial sowohl für einen kreativen Umgang mit Begriffen und ihren Übersetzungen, als auch für Missverständnisse oder gar nicht erst stattfindende Kommunikation. An der nordöstlichen Adria gilt dies nicht zuletzt für die Zeit nach 1945. Die italienisch-slowenisch-kroatische histoire croisée soziopolitischer Semantiken und Diskurse gilt es großteils noch zu schreiben. Die Autorin zeigt epistemologische Grenzen des Kalten Krieges in der Historiographie seit 1990 auf und entwickelt Perspektiven für eine inklusiv gedachte Zeitgeschichte der Region. Sie skizziert semantische Schnittmengen am Beispiel von Sozialprotesten von Hafen- und Werftarbeitern in Triest (Italien), Koper (Jugoslawien/Slowenien) und Rijeka (Jugoslawien/ Kroatien) zwischen 1966 und 1971. Führt man die unterschiedlichen (ideologisierten, nationalisierten, ethnozentrischen usw.) Narrative zusammen, ergeben sich Chancen für eine komplexe Perspektive, jenseits der Phantomgrenze des Kaltes Krieges. (Autorenreferat)