Anti-Communist Persecutions Between Globe-Spanning Processes and Local Peculiarities

Abstract

In light of the rich diversity of the contributions assembled in this volume, the concluding remarks pursue a fourfold task. First, they examine what the case studies contribute to the global history of the Cold War and, more generally, to our understanding of the antagonism between communism and anti-communism in the long twentieth century and still young twenty-first century. Second, they analyse the interdependencies between anti-communist persecutions and other sorts of historical change, such as economic crises, political disruptions, or religious–cultural alterations. Third, the book’s case studies reveal the different points of contact between local forms of anti-communist persecutions and worldwide transformations. And finally, these conclusions identify questions the authors raised but could not answer sufficiently.