Overview

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.

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Author:   Jochen Böhler ,  Ota Konrád ,  Rudolf Kučera
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781789209396

ISBN 10:   1789209390
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   10 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Jochen Boehler, Ota Konrad and Rudolf Kucera 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 Bela Bodo 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 Gorny Chapter 8. Forging a Winning Spirit : The North American YMCA and the Czechoslovak Army 1918-1921 Ondrej Matejka Chapter 9. When the Defeated Become Victorious: Averting Violence with Football in Post-1918 Romania Catalin Parfene Afterword: The End of the Great War and Postwar Problems-Research Conclusions Boris Barth

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This is an excellent collection of high-quality essays on a topic that is at the cutting edge of the field and which builds on a fast-growing interest in the impacts of the First World War. Roland Clark, University of Liverpool

This is an excellent collection of high-quality essays on a topic that is at the cutting edge of the field and which builds on a fast-growing interest in the impacts of the First World War. * Roland Clark, University of Liverpool

Author Information

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).

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