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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Jay Winter Copyright 2022
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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This set of essays introduces readers to new historical research on the creation of the new order in East-Central Europe in the period immediately following 1918. The book offers insights into the political, diplomatic, military, economic and cultural conditions out of which the New Europe was born. Experts from various countries take into account three perspectives. They give equal attention... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Patterns of Violence

1. Imperial Collapse, State-Building and Attempts at Stabilisation: East Central Europe after the Great War

Jörn Leonhard

2. An Age of Revolutions: East Central Europe at the End of the First World War

Robert Gerwarth

3. Violence and the New Europe: The War that Didn’t End

Jay Winter

4. After the Peace Settlement: Frustrations and Possibilities

Andrzej Chwalba

5. The Collapse of the Versailles System during the Interwar Period

Jan Rydel

Part 2: Recasting Public Life: Ideas and institutions

6. Economic Revival in East Central Europe after the Great War

Bogdan Murgescu

7. Boundaries of Imagination. Geographers and Territories in East Central Europe

Maciej Górny

8. To ‘acquire the right place among the nations’. Cultural Diplomacy and the New Order in East Central Europe

Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk

9. Minorities at the Death of the Continental European Empires, 1918-1923

Panikos Panayi

10. New Cities in New States

Helmut Konrad

11. Doctors and Diplomats: Health Services in the New Europe, 1918-1923

Sara Silverstein

12. The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Reconstruction of New Europe, 1918-1923

Kimberly Lowe

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

Attila Pók

14. Wars Over War Memory: East Central Europe, 1918-1989

Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny

15. The Modernist Turn: The New Europe and the Arts, 1918-1923

Andrzej Szczerski

16. The Future of the Past in the New Europe

Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk and Jay Winter

Biography

Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk is Deputy Head of the Academic Department at the Institute of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and Researcher at the History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. His fields of research include Polish-German relations, Polish foreign politics of memory and cultural diplomacy. He is currently writing a book on history as a tool of Polish diplomacy towards Germany, 1918‒1939.

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. His fields of research include the First World War in history and memory, and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. He is currently writing a history of the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 and a book on the cultural history of modern war.

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