A New Europe, 1918-1923: Instability, Innovation, Recovery

ISBN-13: 9781032209739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Bartosz

Opis

This book introduces readers to new historical research on the creation of the new order in East-Central Europe in the period immediately following 1918. Taking a step towards writing a fully European history of the Great War and its aftermath, the volume offers an original approach to this decisive period in 20th century European history.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Patterns of Violence  1. Imperial Collapse, State-Building and Attempts at Stabilisation: East Central Europe after the Great War  2. An Age of Revolutions: East Central Europe at the End of the First World War  3. Violence and the New Europe: The War that Didn’t End  4. After the Peace Settlement: Frustrations and Possibilities  5. The Collapse of the Versailles System during the Interwar Period  Part 2: Recasting Public Life: Ideas and institutions  6. Economic Revival in East Central Europe after the Great War  7. Boundaries of Imagination. Geographers and Territories in East Central Europe  8. To ‘acquire the right place among the nations’. Cultural Diplomacy and the New Order in East Central Europe  9. Minorities at the Death of the Continental European Empires, 1918-1923  10. New Cities in New States  11. Doctors and Diplomats: Health Services in the New Europe, 1918-1923  12. The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Reconstruction of New Europe, 1918-1923  Part 3: The New Europe in Memory and History  13. Political and Cultural Aspects of the Aftermath of the Great War in East Central Europe  14. Wars Over War Memory: East Central Europe, 1918-1989  15. The Modernist Turn: The New Europe and the Arts, 1918-1923  16. The Future of the Past in the New Europe