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Un esercito senza re. La chiamata di leva del marzo 1946 e il rifiuto della coscrizione nei fascicoli del Tribunale militare di Bologna
An army without a king. The call of conscription of March 1946 and the refusal of conscription in the files of the military court of Bologna
Cantelli, Idalgo
2022
Abstract
The first call of conscription after the Second World War took place in March 1946. Many conscripts refused to report to the districts, incurring the crime of «lack of call», under the jurisdiction of the military courts. A quantitative analysis of the files of the military court of Bologna reveals how the phenomenon had a very strong impact in the two provinces of Romagna (Forlì and Ravenna) with a deep-rooted republican tradition. The documents reveal how at the basis of the refusal there was a confused political motivation that was substantiated both in a rejection of the monarchy – perceived as a dying institution – and in the opinion that the current government was not legitimized. The expectation of the Constituent Assembly as a moment of palingenesis emerges from the documentation. The comparison with historiography and with journalistic sources shows how the army was at the center of political controversy and how the conscripts had been the recipients of propaganda that sometimes took on provocative aspects.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Idalgo Cantelli, "Un esercito senza re. La chiamata di leva del marzo 1946 e il rifiuto della coscrizione nei fascicoli del Tribunale militare di Bologna" in: "Qualestoria. Rivista di storia contemporanea. L, N.ro 2, Dicembre 2022", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2022, pp. 121-141
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it
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internazionale
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