Vanquished and Victorious: World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938
Author:   Václav Šmidrkal ,  Laurence Cole ,  Hannes Leidinger ,  Rudolf Kučera
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
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9781805397748


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 September 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Vanquished and Victorious: World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938


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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’.

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Author:   Václav Šmidrkal ,  Laurence Cole ,  Hannes Leidinger ,  Rudolf Kučera
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805397748


ISBN 10:   1805397745
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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