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Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War

Edited by: Burkhard Olschowsky , Piotr Juszkiewicz and Jan Rydel
Funded by: Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte des östlichen Europa

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa

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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.

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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 Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Foreword Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Burkhard Olschowsky, Piotr Juszkiewicz and Jan Rydel Open Access Download PDF	11
The Second Great War, 1917-1923 Jay Winter Open Access Download PDF	81
History of Conflicts
The Central European Civil War, 1918-1921 Jochen Böhler Open Access Download PDF	97
How the Habsburg Monarchy, Austria and Hungary Were Drawn into the Russian October Revolution between 1917 and 1919 Ibolya Murber Open Access Download PDF	107
‘The Red Scare’ in Yugoslavia: The Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Beginning of Yugoslav Anti-Communism 1919-1921 Rastko Lompar Open Access Download PDF	117
Internationalism or National Separatism. The Relationship Between Košice Social Democracy and Czechoslovakia 1918–1919 Attila Simon Open Access Download PDF	125
Charades at Versailles: Poland and the Ukraine at the Paris Peace Conferences Wolfgang Templin Open Access Download PDF	135
History of Ideas
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Woodrow Wilson on the Self-Determination of Nations Burkhard Olschowsky Open Access Download PDF	149
Between Nation and Empire: The Post-Habsburg Adriatic Question and the Fascist Idea of Europe 1919-1922 Marco Bresciani Open Access Download PDF	171
Modernism and War. The Idea of Regeneration in European Art and Architecture after the First World War Piotr Juszkiewicz Open Access Download PDF	183
Territorial History
Cuius Regio Eius Natio. Arguments to Legitimise Territorial Claims Against Austria Arnold Suppan Open Access Download PDF	199
The Options for a Negotiated Peace in the Danube Region: Hungary and Neighbouring Countries after the 1918 Aster Revolution László Szarka Open Access Download PDF	211
New Beginnings in Romanian Political Life after the First World War Marcela Sălăgean Open Access Download PDF	229
The Vulnerability of a Small Post-Colonial State: Georgia's International Prospects in 1918 Beka Kobakidze Open Access Download PDF	237
Economic and Social History
East-Central Europe after the First World War: Fiscal and Monetary Policies in a Time of Economic Transformation Maciej Górny and Włodzimierz Borodziej Open Access Download PDF	249
Between Social and Economic Crisis, Between Revisionism and Political Radicalisation: Bulgaria After the First World War 1918/19-1923 Oliver Schulz Open Access Download PDF	259
‘Peasants Wait for Them with Hope’: The Civil War in Belarus 1918-1922 Andrei Zamoiski Open Access Download PDF	269
The Years of 1918-1923 as a Transformative Period of Jewish Politics Alexis Hofmeister Open Access Download PDF	281
Psychological Consequences of War
Slovak Politics and Society on the Brink of 1918-1919 Marek Syrný Open Access Download PDF	309
Unprocessed Trauma. Polish Medicine in the Face of Psychiatric Injury in the Era of the Great War Joanna Urbanek Open Access Download PDF	321
Women’s Fight for Civil, Social and Political Rights in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus Open Access Download PDF	341
History of Memory
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 Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk Open Access Download PDF	353
The Non-Overshadowed Experiences of the Great War and Their Manifestations in Lithuania, 1914-1926 Vasilijus Safronovas Open Access Download PDF	367
Did the Great War End? Memory and Memorialisation of the First World War in Romania Florin Abraham Open Access Download PDF	377
Appendices
Timeline of military and diplomatic events in Europe, 1914–1924 Open Access Download PDF	387
Timeline of political events in Central and Eastern Europe, 1917–1923 Open Access Download PDF	397
Image credits Open Access Download PDF	407
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	413
Index of places Open Access Download PDF	417
Index of persons Open Access Download PDF	427

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December 16, 2025

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9783112206492

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September 29, 2025

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9783112206478

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2nd, updated edition

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435

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112206492

eBook ISBN: 9783112206492

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First World War; Nation state; Eastern Europe; Revisionism

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Historiens and a broad and historically interested audience.

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