In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917-1923
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-939-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the contours of individual and mass violence in the interwar era while illuminating their effects upon politics, intellectual developments, and the arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Böhler, Jochen

Konrád, Ota

Ku¿era, Rudolf

Kucera, Rudolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Jochen Böhler, Ota Konrád and Rudolf Kucera

Chapter 1. The Baltikumer: Collective Violence and German Paramilitaries after 1918

Mathias Voigtmann

Chapter 2. Pogroms and Imposture: The Violent Self-Formation of Ukrainian Warlords

Christopher Gilley

Chapter 3. Toward an Interactional Theory of Sexual Violence: The White Terror in Hungary between 1919 and 1921

Béla Bodó

Chapter 4. The Many Lives of Mrs. Hamburger: Gender, Violence, and Counter-Revolution, 1919–1930

Emily R. Gioielli

Chapter 5. “A Little Murderous Party”: Poland after the First World War in the Works of Joseph Roth

Winson Chu

Chapter 6. Suicide Discourses: The Austrian Example in the International Context from World War I to the 1930s

Hannes Leidinger

Chapter 7. The “Healthy Nerves” of the Nation: War Neuroses in Austria-Hungary and its Successor States

Maciej Górny

Chapter 8. Forging a “Winning Spirit”: The North American YMCA and the Czechoslovak Army 1918–1921

Ondrej Matejka

Chapter 9. When the Defeated Become Victorious: Averting Violence with Football in Post-1918 Romania

Catalin Parfene

Afterword: The End of the Great War and Postwar Problems—Research Conclusions

Boris Barth

Über Autor(innen)

Konrád, Ota
Ota Konrád is Associate Professor of Modern History at Charles University in Prague. He co-authored (together with Rudolf Kucera) Out of the Apocalypse. Physical Violence in the Fall and Reconstruction of Central Europe, 1914–1922 (Academia, 2018, in Czech).

Böhler, Jochen
Jochen Böhler is Temporary Chair Holder for Eastern European History at Jena University, Germany. His publications include Civil War in Central Europe: The Reconstruction of Poland, 1918–1921 (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Kucera, Rudolf
Rudolf Kucera is Deputy Director for Research at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His publications include Rationed Life: Science, Everyday Life, and Working Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918 (Berghahn Books, 2016).

Jochen Böhler is Temporary Chair Holder for Eastern European History at Jena University, Germany. His publications include Civil War in Central Europe: The Reconstruction of Poland, 1918–1921 (Oxford University Press, 2018).