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Postwar continuity and new challenges in central Europe, 1918-1923 : the war that never ended /

This book presents a multi-layered analysis of the situation in central Europe after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The new geopolitics emerging from the Versailles order, and at the same time ongoing fights for borders, considerable war damage, social and economic problems and replace...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pudłocki, Tomasz (Author, Editor), Ruszała, Kamil (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2022].
Series:Routledge studies in modern European history ; v. 87.
Subjects:
Europe, Eastern > History > 1918-1945.
Europe, Central > History > 20th century.
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1918-1945.
Europe, Central > Politics and government > 20th century.
Europe, Eastern > Social conditions > 20th century.
Europe, Central > Social conditions > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • The war that never ended: East-Central Europe after 1918 / Tomasz Pudłocki and Kamil Ruszała
  • The politics of recognition at the Paris Peace Conference / Leonard V. Smith
  • The protection of minorities at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) / Miran Marelja, Ozren Pilipović, and Meta Athik
  • Montenegro 1918-1921 in the context of the Adriatic Question / Petar Bagarić
  • Diplomacy and national identity of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period: appropriation, thematisation, institutionalization and sustainability / Milada Polišenskás
  • The leftover empire?: imperial legacies and statehood in the successor states of AustriaHungary / Gábor Egry
  • Where did the postwar politics of memory lead to? / Maciej Górny
  • "Hoch den Kaiser"!: The legitimist cause in early postwar Austria / Christopher Brennan
  • Polish and Ukrainian propaganda of violence during and shortly after the war for Eastern Galicia (1918-1919) / Jagoda Wierzejska
  • Ethnicization of anti-Bolshevism: a comparative analysis of anti-Semitic violence in Hungary and Ukraine (1919-1921) / Giuseppe Motta
  • "Robbery and murder": conflicts at the Polish-Romanian border in the aftermath of the war / Elisabeth Haid
  • Three nations at the crossroads: Poles, Jews and Lemkos Between 1918 and 1919 / Kamil Ruszała
  • The formation of a new administrative and political apparatus in Slovakia, 1918-1920: backgrounds and networks / Etienne Boisserie
  • Feldsberg/Valtice and the Lower Austrian towns that became Czech, 1918-1920 / Kathryn E. Densford
  • Defending Christianity and social order in the aftermath of the First World War: discourse and polemics in the Austrian Catholic Conservative press / Konstantinos Raptis
  • The denationalized children of Transylvania: the State Children's Asylum in Cluj after 1918 / Edina Gál
  • The birth of Czechoslovakia between ideals and realpolitik: Masaryk, Beneš and Štefánik in balance between Italy and France on the international chessboard / Alessandro Volpato
  • The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1918-1923: facing social and religious challenges / Iryna Orlevych
  • The Greek Catholic parish clergy in liberation struggle of the Galician Ukrainians in 1918-1923 / Nataliia Kolb
  • Serving science versus serving the country: university professors of Western neophilologies in Poland, 1918-1923 / Tomasz Pudłocki
  • Stefan Surzycki's activities for Polish agriculture in the revived Polish state / Andrzej Synowiec
  • Contributors
  • Index.