1st Edition

The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century Volume 4: Violence

344 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Violence analyzes both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes and armed conflicts between ethnic, social and national groups, as well as the interaction between these two phenomena. Throughout the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was hit particularly... Read more

Volume introduction

Jochen Böhler, Włodzimierz Borodziej and Joachim von Puttkamer

1. The Balkan Wars: patterns of violence in the Balkans leading up to the First World War

Mark Biondich

2. The war in the East, 1914–16

Włodzimierz Borodziej

3. The radicalization of violence and Intermarium‘s interwar

Jochen Böhler

4. Mass violence and its immediate aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War, 1939–47

Alexander Korb and Dieter Pohl

5. State socialism: violence, oppression and surveillance

Włodzimierz Borodziej and Dragoş Petrescu

6. The violent dissolution of Yugoslavia, 1989–2001

Mark Biondich

Biography

Jochen Böhler is acting Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Jena, Germany.

Włodzimierz Borodziej was Professor of History at Warsaw University, Poland.

Joachim von Puttkamer is Professor of Eastern European History at Jena University, Germany and Co-Director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg.