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.
Author(s): Jochen Böhler, Ota Konrád, Rudolf Kučera
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: New York
Contents
Introduction
1 The Baltikumer: Collective Violence and German Paramilitaries after 1918
2 Pogroms and Imposture: The Violent Self-Formation of Ukrainian Warlords
3 Toward an Interactional Theory of Sexual Violence: The White Terror in Hungary, 1919–1921
4 The Many Lives of Mrs. Hamburger: Gender, Violence, and Counterrevolution, 1919–1930
5 “A Little Murderous Party”: Poland after World War I in the Works of Joseph Roth
6 Suicide Discourses: The Austrian Example in an International Context from World War I to the 1930
7 The “Healthy Nerves” of the Nation: War Neuroses in Austria-Hungary and its Successor States
8 Forging a “Winning Spirit”: The North American YMCA and the Czechoslovak Army, 1918–1921
9 When the Defeated Become Victorious: Averting Violence with Football in Post-1918 Romania
Afterword: The End of the Great War and Postwar Problems
Index
