Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War

Burkhard Olschowsky, Piotr Juszkiewicz, Jan Rydel, Burkhard Olschowsky, Piotr Juszkiewicz, Jan Rydel

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9783110757163
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• 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