Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War
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Edited by:
Burkhard Olschowsky
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Funded by:
Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte des östlichen Europa
About this book
2nd edition
The volume focuses on the years following the First World War (1918–1923), when political, military, cultural, social and economic developments consolidated to a high degree in Eastern Europe. This period was shaped, on the one hand, by the efforts to establish an international structure for peace and to set previously oppressed nations on the road to emancipation. On the other hand, it was also defined by political revisionism and territorial claims, as well as a level of political violence that was effectively a continuation of the war in many places, albeit under modified conditions. Political decision-makers sought to protect the emerging nation states from radical political utopias but simultaneously had to rise to the challenges of a social and economic crisis, manage the reconstruction of the many extensively devastated landscapes and provide for the social care and support of victims of war.
Author / Editor information
Dr. Burkhard Olschowsky: Historian, research associate at the Federal Institute of Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe (Oldenburg), expert of German and Polish modern history; Bundesinstitut BKGE
PD Dr. Tobias Weger: Historian, research associate at the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeastern Europe (Munich), expert of Czech and Romanian modern history, Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas
Prof. Piotr Juszkiewicz: Art historian, Department of the History and Theory of Research on Art at the University of Poznań, expert of 20th-century art, art criticism XVIII-XX century, movie and new media
Prof. Jan Rydel: Historian, expert of military history in the 19th and 20th centuries, history of Germany and Austria, University of Kraków
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Introduction
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The Second Great War, 1917-1923
81 - History of Conflicts
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The Central European Civil War, 1918-1921
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How the Habsburg Monarchy, Austria and Hungary Were Drawn into the Russian October Revolution between 1917 and 1919
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‘The Red Scare’ in Yugoslavia: The Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Beginning of Yugoslav Anti-Communism 1919-1921
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Internationalism or National Separatism. The Relationship Between Košice Social Democracy and Czechoslovakia 1918–1919
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Charades at Versailles: Poland and the Ukraine at the Paris Peace Conferences
135 - History of Ideas
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Woodrow Wilson on the Self-Determination of Nations
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Between Nation and Empire: The Post-Habsburg Adriatic Question and the Fascist Idea of Europe 1919-1922
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Modernism and War. The Idea of Regeneration in European Art and Architecture after the First World War
183 - Territorial History
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Cuius Regio Eius Natio. Arguments to Legitimise Territorial Claims Against Austria
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The Options for a Negotiated Peace in the Danube Region: Hungary and Neighbouring Countries after the 1918 Aster Revolution
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New Beginnings in Romanian Political Life after the First World War
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The Vulnerability of a Small Post-Colonial State: Georgia's International Prospects in 1918
237 - Economic and Social History
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East-Central Europe after the First World War: Fiscal and Monetary Policies in a Time of Economic Transformation
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Between Social and Economic Crisis, Between Revisionism and Political Radicalisation: Bulgaria After the First World War 1918/19-1923
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‘Peasants Wait for Them with Hope’: The Civil War in Belarus 1918-1922
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The Years of 1918-1923 as a Transformative Period of Jewish Politics
281 - Psychological Consequences of War
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Slovak Politics and Society on the Brink of 1918-1919
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Unprocessed Trauma. Polish Medicine in the Face of Psychiatric Injury in the Era of the Great War
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Women’s Fight for Civil, Social and Political Rights in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland
341 - History of Memory
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The Creation of New Politics of Memory as a Consequence of a State’s Rebirth: A Case Study of Poland in the First Postwar Years
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The Non-Overshadowed Experiences of the Great War and Their Manifestations in Lithuania, 1914-1926
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Did the Great War End? Memory and Memorialisation of the First World War in Romania
377 - Appendices
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Timeline of military and diplomatic events in Europe, 1914–1924
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Timeline of political events in Central and Eastern Europe, 1917–1923
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Image credits
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Contributors
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Index of places
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Index of persons
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