Description:
Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.
Brief description:
Ota Konrád is a full professor of modern history at Charles University in Prague. His publications include Paths out of the Apocalypse Physical Violence in the Fall and Renewal of Central Europe, 1914-1922 (Oxford University Press, 2022. Together with Rudolf Kučera) and Geisteswissenschaften im Umbruch. Die Fächer Geschichte, Germanistik und Slawistik an der Deutschen Universität in Prag 1918-1945 (Berlin 2020).
Review Quotes:
"Overall, the volume offers a broad panorama of the history of violence in East Central Europe. The individual essays are thematically diverse and offer an excellent synthesis of multilingual sources of research literature and theory." - H-Soz-Kult
"This is an excellent collection of high-quality essays on a topic that is at the cutting edge of the field and which builds on a fast-growing interest in the impacts of the First World War." - Roland Clark, University of Liverpool