World War I in Central and Eastern Europe

Judith Devlin is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the political culture of Stalinism between the 1920s and 1950s. She has published monographs on the cultural history of France and the contemporary history of Russia and three edited volumes, most recently War of Words: Culture and the Media in the Making of the Cold War. John Paul Newman is Lecturer in Twentieth-century European History at NUI Maynooth. He has researched and published extensively on the history of the impact of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe and on the transnational history of World War I. He has edited a transnational study of veterans and their role in internationalist politics in the interwar period, The Great War and Veterans Internationalism and edited a study of the impact of the Great War in the successor states of Austria-Hungary, Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the War in East-Central Europe. He is the author of Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War. Maria Falina is IRC postdoctoral fellow at the School of History, University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the history of religion and politics in Southeastern Europe and the history of political thought in East Central Europe in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is co-editor of A History of Political Thought in East Central Europe. Her monograph, Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity is forthcoming from I.B.Tauris.

• Foreword Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Judith DevlinPart I New Frontiers of War: State Treatment of Non-Combatants1. The Failed Quest for Total Surveillance: The Internal Security Service in Austria-Hungary During World War IMark Lewis2. Fellow Citizens, Unwanted Foreigners: The Refugee Crisisin Wartime Moravia Kathryn E. Densford3. Population Displacement in the Habsburg Empire DuringWorld War I Francesco Frizzera4. Italian – Austrian Prisoners of War and Italian Political and Military Involvement in the Eastern Front During World War I Alessandro Salvador5. Violence, Destruction and Resistance: Serbia’s and Montenegro’s Experiences of the Great War Dmitar Tasic´6. ‘We’re Half-way to Asia Here’: The Conduct of the German Army Units on the Eastern Front in 1914 and 1939 Jan SzkudlinskiPart II Soldiers and Veterans: Experience, Understandingand Memory7. Choosing Their Own Nation: National and Political Identities of the Italian POWs in Russia, 1914 – 21 Simone A. Bellezza8. Red Peril or Yellow Peril? British Attitudes Towards the Russian Other: Northern Russia, 1918 – 19 Steven Balbirnie9. ‘I am Well and I Hope the Same of You. I Will Soon Change Location’: World War I Field Postcards to a Disappearing Homeland Georg Grote10. The Emperor’s Broken Bust: Representations of the Habsburg ‘Shatterzone’ in World War I Andreas Agocs11. A Mutilated Society: Disabled Ex-Servicemen of the Tsarist Russian Army Alexandre Sumpf12. Keeping Up Appearances: The Aims of the Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd, 1915 – 18Shannon Brady13. ‘Who Died for the Homeland?’ Celebrating Victory in East-Central Europe After World War I: An Overview of the Unknown Soldiers Isabelle Davion14. Memory of World War I and Veterans’ Organisations in Poland, 1918 – 26 Joanna UrbanekConclusion Wartime Experiences and Ensuing Transformations John Paul Newman and Maria FalinaNotes 264Selected Further Reading 328Index 330

This volume is an invaluable contribution to the recent re-evaluation of the story of the First World War in East Central Europe. It offers a set of often fascinating case studies that, skilfully put together, summarize recent trends in historical scholarship while confirming key paradigmatic shifts, further supporting the obvious need to move beyond nationalized meta-histories to actor-based, transnational perspectives.