In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

Jochen Böhler, Ota Konrád, Rudolf Kučera (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-128-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Jochen Böhler is director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. His publications include Civil War in Central Europe: The Reconstruction of Poland, 1918–1921 (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Introduction

Jochen Böhler, Ota Konrád and Rudolf Kučera

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

Ondřej Matějka

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

Cătălin Parfene

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

Boris Barth

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80539-128-3 / 1805391283
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-128-9 / 9781805391289
Zustand	Neuware