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When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War,
the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the
Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first
of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted,
commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories.
Each of the book's twelve chapters focuses on a separate region,
studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the
state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This "splintered
war memory," where some posed as victors and some as losers, does
much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.
When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War,
the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the
Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first
of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted,
commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories.
Each of the book's twelve chapters focuses on a separate region,
studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the
state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This "splintered
war memory," where some posed as victors and some as losers, does
much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.
In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and
understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book
addresses this imbalance by examining the war in Eastern and
Central Europe. The historiography of the war in the West has
increasingly focused on the experience of ordinary soldiers and
civilians, the relationships between them and the impact of war at
the time and subsequently. This book takes up these themes and,
engaging with the approaches and conclusions of historians of the
Western front, examines wartime experiences and the memory of war
in the East. Analysing soldiers' letters and diaries to discover
the nature and impact of displacement and refugee status on memory,
this volume offers a basis for comparison between experiences in
these two areas. It also provides material for intra-regional
comparisons that are still missing from the current research. Was
the war in the East wholly 'other'? Were soldiers in this region as
alienated as those in the West? Did they see themselves as citizens
and was there continuity between their pre-war or civilian and
military identities? And if, in the Eastern context, these
identities were fundamentally challenged, was it the experience of
war itself or its consequences (in the shape of imprisonment and
displacement, and changing borders) that mattered most? How did
soldiers and citizens in this region experience and react to the
traumas and upheavals of war and with what consequences for the
post-war era? In seeking to answer these questions and others, this
volume significantly adds to our understanding of World War I as
experienced in Central and Eastern Europe.
Balkan Legacies is a study of the aftermath of war and state
socialism in the contemporary Balkans. The authors look at the
inescapable inheritances of the recent past and those that the
present has to deal with. The book's key theme is the interaction,
often subliminal, of the experiences of war and socialism in
contemporary society in the region. Fifteen contributors approach
this topic from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and through a
variety of interpretive lenses, collectively drawing a composite
picture of the most enduring legacies of conflict and ideological
transition in the region, without neglecting national and local
peculiarities. The guiding questions addressed are: what is the
relationship between memories of war, dictatorship (communist or
fascist), and present-day identity - especially from the
perspective of peripheral and minority groups and individuals? How
did these components interact with each other to produce the
political and social culture of the Balkan Peninsula today? The
answers show the ways in which the experiences of the latter part
of the twentieth century have defined and shaped the region in the
twenty-first century.
Balkan Legacies is a study of the aftermath of war and state
socialism in the contemporary Balkans. The authors look at the
inescapable inheritances of the recent past and those that the
present has to deal with. The book's key theme is the interaction,
often subliminal, of the experiences of war and socialism in
contemporary society in the region. Fifteen contributors approach
this topic from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and through a
variety of interpretive lenses, collectively drawing a composite
picture of the most enduring legacies of conflict and ideological
transition in the region, without neglecting national and local
peculiarities. The guiding questions addressed are: what is the
relationship between memories of war, dictatorship (communist or
fascist), and present-day identity - especially from the
perspective of peripheral and minority groups and individuals? How
did these components interact with each other to produce the
political and social culture of the Balkan Peninsula today? The
answers show the ways in which the experiences of the latter part
of the twentieth century have defined and shaped the region in the
twenty-first century.
The Yugoslav state of the interwar period was a child of the Great
European War. Its borders were superimposed onto a topography of
conflict and killing, for it housed many war veterans who had
served or fought in opposing armies (those of the Central Powers
and the Entente) during the war. These veterans had been
adversaries but after 1918 became fellow subjects of a single
state, yet in many cases they carried into peace the divisions of
the war years. John Paul Newman tells their story, showing how the
South Slav state was unable to escape out of the shadow cast by the
First World War. Newman reveals how the deep fracture left by war
cut across the fragile states of 'New Europe' in the interwar
period, worsening their many political and social problems, and
bringing the region into a new conflict at the end of the interwar
period.
The Yugoslav state of the interwar period was a child of the Great
European War. Its borders were superimposed onto a topography of
conflict and killing, for it housed many war veterans who had
served or fought in opposing armies (those of the Central Powers
and the Entente) during the war. These veterans had been
adversaries but after 1918 became fellow subjects of a single
state, yet in many cases they carried into peace the divisions of
the war years. John Paul Newman tells their story, showing how the
South Slav state was unable to escape out of the shadow cast by the
First World War. Newman reveals how the deep fracture left by war
cut across the fragile states of 'New Europe' in the interwar
period, worsening their many political and social problems, and
bringing the region into a new conflict at the end of the interwar
period.
In the English language, World War I has largely been analysed and
understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book
addresses this imbalance by examining the war in Central and
Eastern Europe. The historiography of the war in the West has
increasingly focused on the experience of ordinary soldiers and
civilians, the relationships between them and the impact of war at
the time and subsequently. This book takes up these themes and,
engaging with the approaches and conclusions of historians of the
Western Front, examines wartime experiences and the memory of war
in the East. Analysing soldiers’ letters and diaries to discover
the nature and impact of displacement and refugeedom on memory,
this volume offers a basis for comparison between experiences in
the two areas. It also provides material for intra-regional
comparisons that are still missing from the current research. Was
the war in the East wholly `other’? Were soldiers in this region
as alienated as those in the West? Did they see themselves as
citizens and was there continuity between their pre-war or civilian
and military identities? And if, in the Eastern context, these
identities were fundamentally challenged, was it the experience of
war itself or its consequences (in the shape of imprisonment and
displacement, and changing borders) that mattered most? How did
soldiers and citizens in this region experience and react to the
traumas and upheavals of war and with what consequences for the
postwar era? In seeking to answer these questions and others, this
volume significantly adds to our understanding of World War I as
experienced in Central and Eastern Europe.
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