The more than thirty studies in this book represent the results of a conference
held at the Babeş Bolyai University in October 2015 and show the large engagement
of the mostly young scholars and their interest to make new research.
Although the majority of the authors come from Romania, there are some others
from other countries too. In the centre of attention is the Romanian space and
its diverse regions, but the different subjects show that just this area can be understood
as a little cosmos.
The contents are structured in three parts: the first part under the title “Political
thought and memory” underlines the diversity among the contemporaries to think
and handle the war time and its actions and shows the different aspects of memory
like a colourful prism. The second part under the title “Nationalism” contains
the message that the “Great war” had a quite official function for the visions and
plans among the European nations, while the third part of the contents under the
title “Civil society” focuses on some aspects concerning the every day life phenomena
which do not correspond with the head lines within the historiography.
We hope that this publication may demonstrate the serious engagement of the
Romanian historiography to join at World War I Studies as well as indicate that
a new generation is going to bring into the research world some ‘new wind’ in
favour of unreserved knowledge about the past.
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“THE OTHER FACE of the war” indicates there are some need to focus on World War I, which had a great impact on later generations influencing not only the interwar period, but also some thinking and acting till near present. “The other face of the war” symbolizes also the readiness to study not only the military but also the civil aspects including the perspectives of the contemporaries on the other sides of the fronts. “The other face of the war” may also show the respect to all small contemporary people too involved unwillingly into a period of dense violence. Finally “the other face of the war” means the reason to participate at an international discussion on World War I Studies focusing on less known subjects for working in favour of a larger horizon.
Author(s): Ioan Bolovan; Rudolf Gräf; Harald Heppner; Oana Mihaela Tămaș
Publisher: Presa Universitară Clujeană
Year: 2016
Language: English
Commentary: Protected, read only file. For copying or editing, see the other version in LibGen ID 1603082
Pages: 477
City: Cluj-Napoca
Tags: Romania, First World War, Transylvania, sociology
7 Foreword
I POLITICAL THOUGHT AND MEMORY
11 HADRIAN GORUN, France and the Romanian Public Opinion at the Beginning of the Great War
19 RALUCA TOMI, An Intellectual during the Neutrality Period: C. I. Istrati
33 MARIUS-MIRCEAMITRACHE, Vox clamantis in deserto: The German and French Peace Movements and the Difficult Dream of Peace during the Great War
51 JOSEPH SCHMAUCH, A Highly Contested Future: French and German Governmental Plans for Alsace-Lorraine in the First World War Contribution
71 MIHNEA-SIMION STOICA, Political Discourse As Romania Entered World War I:An Analysis of the Speeches Given in the Chamber of Deputies, 1916
81 VLAD POPOVICI, Sketches from the Activity of Romanian MPs in the Parliament of Hungary during World War I
95 OVIDIU EMIL IUDEAN, Bridging the Gap: Romanian Parliamentary Elite in Aid of their Communities during the First World War
109 MIHAELA MEHEDINţI-BEIEAN, Sequences of the First World War in the Press: Transylvanian Romanians between Ethnicity and Politics before The Great Union
123 IOANAMIHAELA BONDA and OANAMIHAELA TăMAş, Romania's Neutrality in the Eyes of Banat Intellectuals (1914-1916)
133 MIRCEA-GHEORGHE ABRUDAN, “My Participation in the First World War”: The Manuscript Diary of the Transylvanian Saxon, Otto Folberth
143 MIHAI D. DRECIN, Russian Images and Impressions in the Correspondence Between the Refugee Hortensia Cosma-Goga and Octavian Goga (January-April 1917)
151 MIHAI-OCTAVIAN GROzA, Transylvania and Banat in the Autumn and Winter of 1918: “The Revolutionary Violence” As Reflected in Memoirs
163 IOAN BOLOVAN and ADRIAN ONOFREIU, Orphans, Widows and Invalids in Transylvania during and after the Great War: Statistical Contributions Concerning Bistriţa-Năsăud County
179 ALESSIO FORNASIN, MARCO BRESCHI, NELU DAN and MATTEO MANFREDINI, Italian Military Deaths in the WWI: National Estimates and Regional Differences
II NATIONALISM
195 JózSEF LUkáCS, Interethnic Relations and the Attitude Towards War As Reflected in the Cluj Press in the Spring and Summer of 1914
211 DZHUMYHA YEVHEN, “Between the Game and the War”: Children’s Patriotism in Odessa during the Great War (1914-1917)
223 ALINA-OANA şMIGUN, Romania in 1915: National Interest in Neutrality Years: Between Press Bribery, Royal Hopes and Popular Expectations
237 kAMIL RUSzAłA, Rumours, Fear, Anxiety, War? Social Mood and Situation at the Beginning of the First World War in Smaller Towns in West Galicia
247 MARC STEGHERR, Loyalties and Disloyalties: The Question of Treason and Collaboration in the First World War and the Ruthenian “Irredenta”
259 CăTăLIN TURLIUC, Nationalism at Work: Justifying World War One
269 IULIA-DORINA STANCIU, The Soldier’s Relationship with the “Home Front” Captured in the Romanian War Songs
281 STEFANO SANTORO, WWI and the Radicalization of Nationalism: The Case of the Transylvanian Pedagogist Onisifor Ghibun
II CIVIL SOCIETy
299 RăDUCU RUşEţ, TIBERIU IORDAN, The Assassination in Sarajevo Reflected in Gazeta de Transilvania
315 ANA VICTORIA SIMA and MIRELA ANDREI POPA, Children during a Time of War: A Transylvanian Perspective on World War I
331 VALERIA SOROşTINEANU, And There Was Still War: Transylvania in 1915 between Propaganda and Donations
345 DIANA COVACI, “By Word and Example”: Mobilizing People through the Circulars Issued by the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania (1915)
365 CRISTIAN BâRSU, A Significant Success of the Preparations for War in Romania in 1915: The Book War Surgery by Iacob Iacobovici
379 GIUSEPPE MOTTA: The Joint Distribution Committee and the Relief of Russian Jews
397 DANA-EMILIA CâMPEAN andMARIA AURELIA DIACONU, Between Sadness and Agony: Disease and Death behind the Front Line
411 MáRIA LUPESCU MAkó and RADU MâRzA, Sending Greetings during the Great War
443 CARMEN ȚâGșOREAN, A Devoted Friend and Ally, Henri Mathias Berthelot: The Image of The French General Presented in the Românul Newspaper
455 IONELA zAHARIA, A Different Face of the War: Romanian Habsburg Military Chaplains on the Home Front
467 IGOR CHIOSA, The Activity of Police Forces in Bessarabia during World War I
475 List of authors
