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Author:   Doina Anca Cretu ,  Michal Frankl
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.568kg
ISBN:  

9781526189936

ISBN 10:   1526189933
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   18 November 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Doina Anca Cretu, Michal Frankl, Humanitarian Mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction Part I: Local Humanitarianism 1 Friederike Kind-Kovács: Save the (Workers’) Children: Humanitarian Kindergartens in Budapest’s Slums 2 Franciszek Zakrzewski: Jews and Christians Inside and Outside the Social Care System in Interwar Lubartów 3 Cristian Capotescu: When the ‘Socialist Good Life’ Met its Match: Austerity andHumanitarianCrisis in 1980s Romania 4 Maren Hachmeister: Self-organized Care for Older People in Eastern Germany. From Local Socialist Humanitarianism to post-1989 Transformations Part II: National Humanitarianism 5 Nikola Tohma: The Czechoslovak Red Cross and Refugee Children from Greece and North Korea 6 Julia Reinke: Refugees in the “Better Germany”. Humanitarian Aid to Greek Refugee Children in the Early German Democratic Republic Part III: International Humanitarianism 7 Gábor Egry: How to Leave Central Europe? Transnational, Humanitarian State-building and the Post-Habsburg Transition 8 Laura Brade: Western Perceptions of Czechoslovak Humanitarians Interactions under Nazi Occupation, 1938-1939 9 Ruth Nattermann: “The Same Spirit that Led Me into War …” Italian and Transnational Humanitarian Actors and Postrevolutionary Russia 10 Sarah Knoll: Religious Humanitarianism: The World Council of Churches for Refugees in Austria in 1956 and 1968 -- .

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Doina Anca Cretu is Assistant Professor in Modern European History at University of Warwick. Michal Frankl was Senior Researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project 'Unlikely Refuge?'. Currently, he is the head of the Prague Department 'Knowledge and Participation' of the Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe.

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