ISBN-13: 9783847111344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 158 str.
While there has been much recent research on war veterans in Germany and other European countries, other regions of Central and East-Central Europe have attracted noticeably less attention. For this reason, this special issue presents research on the comparative history of World War One veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia. This transnational investigation breaks new ground by investigating two neighbouring states that showed distinct patterns of immediate post-war reconstruction, as well as of subsequent development. While the social and discursive environment formed by a prima facie hegemonic "culture of victory" shaped developments in Czechoslovakia, Austria, on the contrary, was seemingly shaped by a "culture of defeat." As the articles in this special issue show, however, there are good reasons for questioning the validity of this usual dichotomy between victory and defeat cultures, given that most of the "successor states" of the Habsburg Monarchy contained a mix of both. A new comparative History of World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia