Enrico Miletto, Tito's Italians. Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste and Communist Emigration to Yugoslavia (1947–1954) , Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), 2019.

Between 1947 and 1954, Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste (FTT) was at the center of geopolitical, cultural, social, and demographic changes linked to the end of the Second World War, the international situation, and the border issue, which reached a nearly conclusive resolution with the signing of the London Memorandum . While the first phase of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus has now found a stable place in the national historiography, the events of the Italian population of Zone B, which remained under Yugoslav administration for nearly a decade, have received less prominence. The policies adopted by the popular powers, the Italian government's lines of intervention, the exodus, the conditions of the Italians who remained after the area's transfer to Yugoslavia, and their difficulty maintaining a cultural and national identity, represent the main aspects of this research, which also explores issues related to the emigration of Italian communists to Yugoslavia. A transition analyzed through the experience of Monfalcone workers and militants who, driven by ideals and the desire to actively participate in the construction of a socialist society, decided to cross the border and move to Tito's country. Here, after the split in the Cominform and their decision to side with Stalin, they encountered the harshest face of Yugoslav communism, which, for some of them, coincided with long imprisonment in Tito's concentration camps. The others had no choice but to return to Italy. It was a traumatic return, marked by isolation, economic hardship, mistrust, and silence. The Italian Communist Party imposed a deafening silence on their experiences, determined to cast a thick shadow over them, which this work aims to help undermine.