Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War / Burkhard Olschowsky, Piotr Juszkiewicz, Jan Rydel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olschowsky, Burkhard, 1969- author.

Juszkiewicz, Piotr, author.

Rydel, Jan, author.

Series:

Schriften des Bundesinstituts Für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen Im östlichen Europa

Schriften des Bundesinstituts Für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen Im östlichen Europa ; v.74

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Social conditions.

Europe--History--20th century.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

Includes translations from the German.

Biography/History:

B. Olschowsky, BKGE Oldenburg; P. Juszkiewicz, University of Poznań; J. Rydel, Pedagogical University of Kraków.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

The Second Great War, 1917-1923

History of Conflicts

The Central European Civil War, 1918-1921.

How the Habsburg Monarchy, Austria and Hungary Were Drawn into the Russian October Revolution Between 1917 and 1919

‘The Red Scare’ in Yugoslavia: The Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Beginning of the Yugoslav Anti-Communism 1919-1921

Internationalism or National Separatism. The Relationship Between Košice Social Democracy and Czechoslovakia 1918-1919

Charades at Versailles: Poland and the Ukraine at the Paris Peace Conferences

History of Ideas

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Woodrow Wilson on the Self-Determination of Nations

Between Nation and Empire: The Post-Habsburg Adriatic Question and the Fascist Idea of Europe 1919-1922

Modernism and War. The Idea of Regeneration in European Art and Architecture after the First World War

Territorial History

Cuius Regio Eius Natio. Arguments to Legitimise Territorial Claims Against Austria

The Options for a Negotiated Peace in the Danube Region: Hungary and Neighbouring Countries after the 1918 Aster Revolution

The Dynamic of Post-War Political Structures in Multi-Ethnic Regions: Transylvania at the End of 1918

New Beginnings in Romanian Political Life after the First World War

The Vulnerability of a Small Post-Colonial State: Georgia's International Prospects in 1918

Economic and Social History

East-Central Europe after the First World War: Fiscal and Monetary Policies in a Time of Economic Transformation

Between Social and Economic Crisis, Between Revisionism and Political Radicalisation: Bulgaria after the First World War 1918/19-1923

‘Peasants Wait for Them with Hope’: The Civil War in Belarus 1918-1922

The Years of 1918-1923 as a Transformative Period of Jewish Politics

Psychological Consequences of War

Slovak Politics and Society on the Brink of 1918-1919

Unprocessed Trauma. Polish Medicine in the Face of Psychiatric Injury in the Era of the Great War

Women’s Fight for Civil, Social and Political Rights in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland

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

The Non-Overshadowed Experiences of the Great War and Their Manifestations in Lithuania, 1914-1926

Did the Great War End? Memory and Memorialization of the First World War in Romania

Appendices

Timeline of military and diplomatic events in Europe, 1914-1924

Timeline of political events in Central and Eastern Europe, 1917-1923

Image Credits

Contributors

Index of places

Index of persons

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110757163

3110757168

OCLC:

1286808074

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access.