The Second Great War, 1917-1923

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 9
4. Introduction 11
5. The Second Great War, 1917-1923 81
6. History of Conflicts
7. The Central European Civil War, 1918-1921. 97
8. How the Habsburg Monarchy, Austria and Hungary Were Drawn into the Russian October Revolution Between 1917 and 1919 107
9. ‘The Red Scare’ in Yugoslavia: The Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Beginning of the Yugoslav Anti-Communism 1919-1921 117
10. Internationalism or National Separatism. The Relationship Between Košice Social Democracy and Czechoslovakia 1918-1919 125
11. Charades at Versailles: Poland and the Ukraine at the Paris Peace Conferences 135
12. History of Ideas
13. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Woodrow Wilson on the Self-Determination of Nations 149
14. Between Nation and Empire: The Post-Habsburg Adriatic Question and the Fascist Idea of Europe 1919-1922 171
15. Modernism and War. The Idea of Regeneration in European Art and Architecture after the First World War 183
16. Territorial History
17. Cuius Regio Eius Natio. Arguments to Legitimise Territorial Claims Against Austria 199
18. The Options for a Negotiated Peace in the Danube Region: Hungary and Neighbouring Countries after the 1918 Aster Revolution 211
19. The Dynamic of Post-War Political Structures in Multi-Ethnic Regions: Transylvania at the End of 1918 221
20. New Beginnings in Romanian Political Life after the First World War 229
21. The Vulnerability of a Small Post-Colonial State: Georgia's International Prospects in 1918 237
22. Economic and Social History
23. East-Central Europe after the First World War: Fiscal and Monetary Policies in a Time of Economic Transformation 249
24. Between Social and Economic Crisis, Between Revisionism and Political Radicalisation: Bulgaria after the First World War 1918/19-1923 259
25. ‘Peasants Wait for Them with Hope’: The Civil War in Belarus 1918-1922 269
26. The Years of 1918-1923 as a Transformative Period of Jewish Politics 281
27. Psychological Consequences of War
28. Slovak Politics and Society on the Brink of 1918-1919 309
29. Unprocessed Trauma. Polish Medicine in the Face of Psychiatric Injury in the Era of the Great War 321
30. Women’s Fight for Civil, Social and Political Rights in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland 341
31. History of Memory
32. 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 353
33. The Non-Overshadowed Experiences of the Great War and Their Manifestations in Lithuania, 1914-1926 367
34. Did the Great War End? Memory and Memorialization of the First World War in Romania 377
35. Appendices
36. Timeline of military and diplomatic events in Europe, 1914-1924 387
37. Timeline of political events in Central and Eastern Europe, 1917-1923 397
38. Image Credits 407
39. Contributors 413
40. Index of places 417
41. Index of persons 427