Paths Out of the Apocalypse: Physical Violence in the Fall and Renewal of Central Europe, 1914-1922

ISBN-13: 9780192896780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str.

Dire Rudolf (Director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives

Recenzje

Methodically, the book stands out as an ambitious interlacing of perspectives...consult this volume as a material-rich and stimulating special research on the history of violence in three historical areas of the dual monarchy.

O autorze

Ota Konrád is an Associate Professor of Modern History and Director of Modern History PhD Program at Charles University in Prague. He has worked on topics dealing with the history of the humanities, history of the foreign policy, history of WWI in Central Europe, the cultural history of violence, and contemporary Austrian history. He is the author of Geisteswissenschaften im Umbruch: Die Fächer Geschichte, Germanistik und Slawistik an der Deutschen Universität in Prag 1918-1945 (2020). Currently, he is working on a project supported by the Humboldt foundation about collective violence as a tool for reshaping national identities at the end of WWII in Europe, mainly in Czechoslovakia. Rudolf Kucera is Director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague. He was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna and is currently a permanent visiting professor at the University of Konstanz. He is the author of Rationed Life: Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914-1918 (2016).