Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 19181923

This book presents a multi-layered analysis of the situation in Central Europe after the collapse of the Habsburg Empire: organizing the post-imperial space, a new political order, attempts to create new national memories, and solving multiple problems typical of that region after 1918.

Autorentext

Tomasz Pudocki is Professor in the Institute of History at Jagiellonian University.

Kamil Ruszaa is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History at Jagiellonian University.

Inhalt

1. The War That Never Ended: East-Central Europe After 1918 Part 1: New Challenges New Orders 2. The Politics of Recognition at the Paris Peace Conference 3. The Protection of Minorities at the Paris Peace Conference (19191920) 4. Montenegro 19181921 in the Context of the Adriatic Question 5. Diplomacy and National Identity of Czechoslovakia in the Interwar Period: Appropriation, Thematisation, Institutionalization and Sustainability Part 2: Postimperial Legacies, Legitimism and Memory 6. The Leftover Empire?: Imperial Legacies and Statehood in the Successor States of Austria-Hungary 7. Where Did the Postwar Politics of Memory Lead To? 8. "Hoch den Kaiser!": The Legitimist Cause in Early Postwar Austria Part 3: Long Lasting Violence 9. Polish and Ukrainian Propaganda of Violence During and Shortly After the War for Eastern Galicia (19181919) 10. Ethnicization of Anti-Bolshevism: A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Semitic Violence in Hungary and Ukraine (19191921) 11. "Robbery and Murder": Conflicts at the Polish-Romanian Border in the Aftermath of the War Part 4: Shaping Postimperial Space: Administration and Society 12. Three Nations at the Crossroads: Poles, Jews and Lemkos Between 1918 and 1919 13. The Formation of a New Administrative and Political Apparatus in Slovakia, 19181920: Backgrounds and Networks 14. Feldsberg/Valtice and the Lower Austrian Towns That Became Czech, 19181920 15. Defending Christianity and Social Order in the Aftermath of the First World War: Discourse and Polemics in the Austrian Catholic Conservative Press 16. The Denationalized Children of Transylvania: The State Children's Asylum in Cluj After 1918 Part 5: In the Service of Nation and/or State 17. The Birth of Czechoslovakia Between Ideals and Realpolitik: Masaryk, Bene and tefánik in Balance Between Italy and France on the International Chessboard 18. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 19181923: Facing Social and Religious Challenges 19. The Greek Catholic Parish Clergy in Liberation Struggle of the Galician Ukrainians in 19181923 20. Serving Science versus Serving the Country: University Professors of Western Neophilologies in Poland, 19181923 21. Stefan Surzycki's Activities for Polish Agriculture in the Revived Polish State