Peasant Violence and Antisemitism in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-76068-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It focuses on the devastating Romanian peasant uprising in 1907 and traces the reverberations of the crisis across the triple frontier, analysing the fears, spectres and knee-jerk reactions it triggered in the borderlands of Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia. The uprising came close on the heels of the 1905-1907 social turmoil in Tsarist Russia, and brought into play the major issues that characterized social and political life in the region at the time: rural poverty, the Jewish Question, state modernization, and social upheavals. The book comparatively explores the causes and mechanisms of violence propagation, the function of rumour in the spread of the uprising, land reforms and their legal underpinnings, the policing capabilities of the borderlands around the triple frontier, as well as newspaper coverage and diplomatic reactions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marin, Irina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: A Peasant Uprising on the Edge of a Triple Frontier.- 2. Rumour and Violence: the Making of an Uprising.- 3. Jews, Strangers and Foreigners.- 4. The Peasant Question.- 5. Eyes of the State.- 5. Paper Worlds.- 7. Diplomacy of the Uprising.- 8. Conclusions.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Irina Marin is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She has taught and researched at University College London, University of Oxford, University of Leicester and the Vienna Institute for Holocaust Studies. She is the author of Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg Rivalries in Eastern Europe (2012).