Vanquished and Victorious

World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938

Václav Šmidrkal, Laurence Cole, Hannes Leidinger, Rudolf Kučera (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-774-8 (ISBN)

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Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the ‘successor states’ of the Habsburg Empire. Vanquished and Victorious provides an innovative comparative investigation of veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, two states whose wider political development was of crucial importance to the question of stability in Central Europe after 1918. While differing in terms of how successfully veterans reintegrated into post-war society, this volume shows that both countries incorporated elements of ‘cultures of victory and defeat’.

Václav Šmidrkal is a researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor of history at the Charles University in Prague.

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Notes on place names and terms used in manuscript

Introduction

Chapter 1. Demobilization and Remobilization in the Shadow of Victory and Defeat

Chapter 2. Constructing Veterans: legal Systems and Welfare Policy

Chapter 3. The Landscape of Veterans Associations

Chapter 4. Foreign Representation of the State and Its Veterans

Chapter 5. Revisionism and Remobilization

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-80539-774-5 / 1805397745
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-774-8 / 9781805397748
Zustand	Neuware