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Political crisis in Central Europe in the interwar period and today : temporality, semantics, and logic of crises in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania / edited by Martin Schulze Wessel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New German historical perspectives ; v. 14.
- New German historical perspectives ; volume 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Europe, Central.
- Democracy.
- Europe, Central--Politics and government.
- Europe, Central.
- Europe, Central--Politics and government--20th century.
- Europe, Central--Politics and government--21st century.
- Politics and government.
- Central Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 234 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Linking contemporary concerns about democratic fragility with historical analysis, this volume examines the crisis and failure of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe during the interwar period from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions explore political culture, constitutional traditions, religion, violence, and crisis discourse in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. Rather than focusing narrowly on institutional breakdown, the authors emphasize long-term cultural legacies, narratives of crisis, and exclusionary identities that undermined democratic pluralism. Interwar Europe functioned as a laboratory of democracy whose experiences offer critical insights into the challenges facing liberal democracies today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Crises of democracy and capitalism intertwined : the interwar years as space of experience and usable past / Stefanie Middendorf
- Vertical power division and the rule of law : a constitutional analysis of Poland and Romania / Madeleine Hartmann and Dietmar Müller
- Czech and Czechoslovak communists 1921-2021 : the rise and fall of an anti-system party / Jakub Rákosník
- From godless Amazons to the gender lobby : Czech anti-gender activism in historical perspective / Melissa Feinberg
- 'The Protestants and us' : state, nation and religion in interwar and today's Slovakia / Darina Volf
- The return of Christian Hungary : religion, nationalism and historical memory / Paul Hanebrink
- Victory, homogeneity and international order : Czechoslovakia's violent paths to national democracy in 1918, 1945 and 1989 / Ota Konrád
- Practice and ideology in the study of fascist movements in interwar Europe / Daniel Siemens.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed July 22, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Political crisis in Central Europe in the interwar period and today
- ISBN:
- 9781836956327
- 1836956320
- 9781836956334
- 1836956339
- OCLC:
- 1602267258
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000405512
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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