Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War edited by Burkhard Olschowsky, Piotr Juszkiewicz, Jan Rydel ; translated by Sarah Patey et al.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olschowsky, Burkhard, 1969- editor.

Juszkiewicz, Piotr, editor.

Rydel, Jan, editor.

Patey, Sarah, translator.

Series:

Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa ; Bd. 74.

Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa volume 74

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Social conditions.

Eastern Europe.

Central Europe.

Europe.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

2nd edition

Place of Publication:

Berlin De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2025]

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"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

The second great war, 1917-1923 / Jay Winter

The central European civil war, 1918-1921 / Jochen Böhler

How the Habsburg monarchy, Austria and Hungary were drawn into the Russian October Revolution between 1917 and 1919 / Ibolya Murber

‘The red scare’ in Yugoslavia : the Hungarian Soviet Republic and the beginning of the Yugoslav anti-communism 1919-1921 / Rastko Lompar

Internationalism or national separatism : the relationship between Košice social democracy and Czechoslovakia 1918-1919 / Attila Simon

Charades at Versailles : Poland and the Ukraine at the Paris Peace Conferences / Wolfgang Templin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Woodrow Wilson on the self-determination of nations / Burkhard Olschowsky

Between nation and empire : the post-Habsburg Adriatic question and the fascist idea of Europe 1919-1922 / Marco Bresciani

Modernism and war : the idea of regeneration in European art and architecture after the First World War / Piotr Juszkiewicz

Cuius regio eius natio : arguments to legitimise territorial claims against Austria / Arnold Suppan

The options for a negotiated peace in the Danube region : Hungary and neighbouring countries after the 1918 Aster Revolution / László Szarka

The dynamic of post-war political structures in multi-ethnic regions : Transylvania at the end of 1918 / Andreea Dancila

New beginnings in Romanian political life after the First World War / Marcela Salagean

The vulnerability of a small post-colonial state : Georgia’s international prospects in 1918 / Beka Kobakhidze

East-Central Europe after the First World War : fiscal and monetary policies in a time of economic transformation / Maciej Górny; Wlodzimierz Borodziej †

Between social and economic crisis, between revisionism and political radicalisation : Bulgaria after the First World War 1918/19-1923 / Oliver Schulz

‘Peasants wait for them with hope’ : the civil war in Belarus 1918-1922 / Andrei Zamoiski

The years of 1918-1923 as a transformative period of Jewish politics / Alexis Hofmeister

Slovak politics and society on the brink of 1918-1919 / Marek Syrný

Unprocessed trauma : Polish medicine in the face of psychiatric injury in the era of the Great War / Joanna Urbanek

Women’s fight for civil, social and political rights in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland / Karolina Labowicz-Dymanus

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-Stefanczyk

The non-overshadowed experiences of the Great War and their manifestations in Lithuania, 1914-1926 / Vasilijus Safronovas

Did the Great War end? Memory and memorialization of the First World War in Romania / Florin Abraham

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed June 16, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War

ISBN:

9783112206492

3112206495

OCLC:

1564060060

Access Restriction:

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