Vanquished and Victorious: World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938

Václav Šmidrkal, Laurence Cole, Hannes Leidinger, Rudolf Kučera, Julia Walleczek-Fritz, Radka Kopeček Šustrová

Publikation: Buch/Bericht/GesetzeskommentarBuchForschungPeer-reviewed

Abstract

Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the 'successor states' of the Habsburg Empire. Vanquished and Victorious provides an innovative comparative investigation of veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, two states whose wider political development was of crucial importance to the question of stability in Central Europe after 1918. While differing in terms of how successfully veterans reintegrated into post-war society, this volume shows that both countries incorporated elements of 'cultures of victory and defeat'.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ErscheinungsortNew York and Oxford
VerlagBerghahn Books
Seitenumfang336
ISBN (elektronisch)978-1-80539-638-3
ISBN (Print)978-1-80539-774-8
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Sept. 2024

Publikationsreihe

NameAustrian and Habsburg Studies

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© 2024 Václav Šmidrkal, Laurence Cole, Hannes Leidinger, Rudolf Kucera, Julia Walleczek-Fritz and Radka Šustrová. All rights reserved.

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