Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919

ISBN-13: 9780521768306 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Ohio) Eliza Ablovatski (Kenyon College

Opis

In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and extreme contrasts. Dramatic events since the end of the world war seemed poised to transform the world, but the form of that transformation was unclear and violently contested in the streets and societies of Munich and Budapest in 1919. The political perceptions of contemporaries, framed by gender stereotypes and antisemitism, reveal the sense of living history, of 'fighting the world revolution', which was shared by residents of the two cities. In 1919, both revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries were focused on shaping the emerging new order according to their own worldview. By examining the narratives of these Central European revolutions in their transnational context, Eliza Ablovatski helps answer the question of why so many Germans and Hungarians chose to use their new political power for violence and repression.

Recenzje

'Enlisting a wide array of sources - including the press, novels, trial records, and memoirs - in the service of an elegantly written analysis, Revolution and Political Violence positions the short-lived soviet republics in Hungary and Bavaria within the wider post-1918 narrative of world revolution … the book demonstrates the value gendered approaches lend to our understanding of this tumultuous era and opens up new avenues of inquiry to scholars of the long World War I era in central and eastern Europe.' Emily R. Gioielli, American History Yearbook

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Central European roots of revolution; 2. World war and world revolution; 3. Rumor and terror: revolutionary script and political violence; 4. Revolution on trial; 5. Seeing red: dangerous women and Jewish Bolshevism; 6. Remembering the world revolution; Conclusion.