The Shaken Lands: Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914-1923

The Shaken Lands: Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914-1923

The Shaken Lands: Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914-1923

The Shaken Lands: Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914-1923

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Overview

The volume focuses on violence during the breakdown of East Central European states brought by one of the most violent periods in modern European history: from the start of the Great War in 1914 until 1923 when Europe, finally, achieved peace after a series of civil conflicts and interstate wars. The contributors offer several case studies that cover the vast region stretching from the Baltic states to Hungary. They explore different types of violence against its civilian populations with a particular focus on communal violence committed by civilians onto their neighbors. They suggest that disintegration of state power brought by the Great War was a key condition that produced violence. Yet the process of post-WWI state building was equally or more violent as nascent East Central European states institutionalized the use of violence to achieve their political agendas.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798887191751
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication date: 04/25/2023
Series: Lithuanian Studies without Borders
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 258
File size: 537 KB

About the Author

Tomas Balkelis is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. He is the author of The Making of Modern Lithuania (Routledge, 2009) and War, Revolution and Nation-Making in Lithuania (Oxford University Press, 2018). His research fields include nation-building, forced migrations, population displacement, and paramilitary violence in Lithuania, Russia, and Poland.


Andrea Griffante is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. He received his MA at the University of Trieste and his PhD in history at Klaipėda University. His latest monograph is Children, Poverty, and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940 (Palgrave, 2019). His research fields include history of humanitarianism, nation-building, history of childhood, and social history of medicine.


Tomas Balkelis is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. He is the author of The Making of Modern Lithuania (Routledge, 2009) and War, Revolution and Nation-Making in Lithuania (Oxford University Press, 2018). His research fields include nation-building, forced migrations, population displacement, and paramilitary violence in Lithuania, Russia, and Poland.


Andrea Griffante is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. He received his MA at the University of Trieste and his PhD in history at Klaipėda University. His latest monograph is Children, Poverty, and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940 (Palgrave, 2019). His research fields include history of humanitarianism, nation-building, history of childhood, and social history of medicine.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Tomas Balkelis and Andrea Griffante

 

Contributors

 

1. The Evolution of Wartime Criminality in Lithuania, 1914–1920

Vytautas Petronis           


2. War Violence and Its Representation: A Comparison of Civilian Experiences of the Great War on Both Sides of the Former Russian-German Border

Vasilijus Safronovas, Vygantas Vareikis, and Hektoras Vitkus        


3. The Military Pogroms in Lithuania, 1919–1920              

Darius Staliūnas


4. Scandinavian Volunteers as Perpetrators of Violence and Crime in the Estonian War of Independence

Mart Kuldkepp


5. The Rich and the (In)famous: Social Conflicts and Paramilitary Violence in Hungary during the Counterrevolution, 1921–1923          

Béla Bodó           


6. The Polish Central Government, Regional Authorities, and Local Paramilitaries during the Battle for the Western Borderlands, 1918–1921               

Jochen Böhler


7. Eisenbahnfeldzug: Railway War in East Central Europe

Maciej Górny    


8. Beyond Comparison? The Challenges of Applying Comparative Historical Research to Violence

Julia Eichenberg              


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