Partisan

Partisan may refer to:

Politics

• Partisan (politics), a committed member of a political party

Military

• Partisan (weapon), a pole weapon
• Partisan (military), paramilitary forces engaged behind the front line
  • Albanian Resistance of World War II, the Partisans of Albania during World War II
  • Armenian irregular units, referring to Armenian guerrillas from World War I
  • Belarusian partisans, in World War II and after
  • Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II, a Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II
  • Czech partisans, a Czech resistance movement during World War II
  • Forest Brothers, after World War II against the Soviet Union
  • French Resistance, during World War II
  • Werwolf, Germany's World War II movement
  • Germany's planned World War II Alpine National redoubt
  • Greek Resistance, in World War II and after
  • Italian resistance movement, in World War II
  • Jewish partisans, among the Jewish resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe
    • Bielski partisans, a Jewish resistance group during World War II
  • Latvian partisans, in World War II and after
  • Leśni (Polish resistance movement), in World War II
  • Lithuanian partisans, in World War II and after
  • Slovak partisans, in Slovak National Uprising, an armed insurrection during World War II
  • Slovene partisans
  • Soviet partisans, for the USSR in World War II
    • Soviet partisans in Estonia, during World War II against Nazi-Germany
  • Yugoslav Partisans, in World War II and after

Films

• Partisan film, a subgenre of war films in Yugoslavia
• Partisan (film), a 2015 Australian film
• Partisans, a 1974 Yugoslavian partisan film

Music

• Po šumama i gorama, a Yugoslav Partisan version of the traditional song of Red Partisans in Serbia during 1918–1920 Russian Civil War
• "Chant des Partisans", a song written by Anna Marly in 1943, with French lyrics by Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon
• "La Complainte du partisan", a song written by Anna Marly in 1943, with French lyrics by Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie
  • "The Partisan", an English language adaptation of "La Complainte du partisan" by Hy Zaret, made popular by Leonard Cohen in 1969
• The Partisans (band), a 1980s punk and Oi! band
• Partisan Records, an American independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York
• The Partisan Seed, music moniker for Filipe Miranda, a Portuguese singer/songwriter

Other uses

• Partisans (novel), a 1982 novel by Alistair MacLean about the Yugoslav partisans
• Partisan game, in combinatorial game theory
• The Partisans (sculpture) in Boston

See also

• Partisan Review, a United States political and literary quarterly
• Partizan (disambiguation)
• Partizani (disambiguation)