The Great Depression in Eastern Europe / edited by Klaus Richter, Jasmin Nithammer, and Anca Mândru.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richter, Klaus, 1979- editor.

Nithammer, Jasmin, 1983- editor.

Mândru, Anca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depressions--1929--Europe, Eastern.

Depressions.

Europe, Eastern--Economic conditions.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--History--1918-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : CEU Press, Central European University Press, 2025.

System Details:

digital

Summary:

"As the centenary of the Great Depression approaches, this book offers a historical study of its impact on Eastern Europe. Due to its agricultural dominance this region was particularly hard hit. The volume focuses on ten states of the interwar period that had emerged from the Ottoman, Romanov, Habsburg, and Hohenzollern empires and where national sovereignty was particularly contested. The contributing authors apply an integrative approach that uses economic change as a starting point for analysing socio-institutional changes and political realignments. They review the main responses that the respective countries have made to try to mitigate the impact of the crises, such as economic protectionism or the construction of welfare states. The contributions also examine the profound impact of the Depression on the relationship between societies and states, between genders, between social classes, and between different nationalities. By moving the study of economic nationalism from economic history to the center of social and political history, the volume contributes to a much better understanding of states, societies and nationalism in Eastern Europe in the 1930s"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

The League of Nations, Eastern Europe, and the Great Depression / Klaus Richter, Jasmin Nithammer, and Anca Mândru

Austria : the toll of economic orthodoxy / Nathan Marcus

Poland : foreign capital and economic nationalism during the Great Depression / Jerzy Lazor

Czechoslovakia : "the last straw" : Bat'a and Endicott-Johnson during and after the Great Depression / Zachary Doleshal

Latvia : between economic recovery and the Great Depression : multi-ethnic entrepreneurship, fragmentation, nationalization / Katja Wezel

Estonia : "is this the Estonia we wanted?" How the interwar slump reshaped Estonia's society / David Feest

Lithuania : the Great Depression, social divisions, and economic nationalism / Klaus Richter

Romania : serving fewer by design : austerity welfare politics during the Great Depression / Alexandra Ghit

Hungary : social and political consequences of the Great Depression / Béla Tomka

Bulgaria : economic thought and structural change during the Great Depression / Nikolay Nenovsky and Tsvetelina Marinova

Greece : institutional strategies and political actors in a period of increasing economic protectionism / Catherine Brégianni

The watershed moment of Eastern Europe's interwar / Klaus Richter, Jasmin Nithammer, and Anca Mândru.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 13, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Great Depression in Eastern Europe

ISBN:

9789633868959

9633868955

9781003722519

1003722512

OCLC:

1482188240

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access