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Vanquished and Victorious
World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938
Václav Šmidrkal, Laurence Cole, Hannes Leidinger, Rudolf Kučera, Julia Walleczek-Fritz, and Radka Šustrová
Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4. license with support from the Austrian Science Fund.
336 pages, 18 figs., 5 maps, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-774-8 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Published (September 2024)
Description
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’.
Václav Šmidrkal is a researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor of history at Charles University in Prague.
Laurence Cole is professor of Austrian History at the University of Salzburg. Hannes Leidinger.
Hannes Leidinger is head of the Vienna office of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War and lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna.
Rudolf Kučera is director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and associate professor of history at the Charles University in Prague.
Julia Walleczek-Fritz completed her PhD. at the University of Innsbruck and has participated in a number of international research projects. She currently works as a research project manager at the University of Salzburg.
Radka Šustrová has been a lecturer in Social History at Charles University in Prague since 2018 and currently holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellowship at the University of Vienna.
Subject: History: World War IHistory: 20th Century to Present
Area: Central/Eastern Europe
Vanquished and Victorious by Václav Šmidrkal, Laurence Cole, Hannes Leidinger, Rudolf Kučera, Julia Walleczek-Fritz, and Radka Šustrová is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the Austrian Science Fund.
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OA ISBN: 978-1-80539-638-3
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