Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) - Hardcover

Ablovatski, Eliza

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521768306 ISBN 13: 9780521768306

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and extreme contrasts. Dramatic events since the end of the world war seemed poised to transform the world, but the form of that transformation was unclear and violently contested in the streets and societies of Munich and Budapest in 1919. The political perceptions of contemporaries, framed by gender stereotypes and antisemitism, reveal the sense of living history, of 'fighting the world revolution', which was shared by residents of the two cities. In 1919, both revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries were focused on shaping the emerging new order according to their own worldview. By examining the narratives of these Central European revolutions in their transnational context, Eliza Ablovatski helps answer the question of why so many Germans and Hungarians chose to use their new political power for violence and repression.

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About the Author

Eliza Ablovatski is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Kenyon College. Ablovatski is a historian of central and eastern Europe interested in gender and Jewish history. She is the co-author of three books of oral histories of Jews from Czernowitz, including Zwischen Pruth und Jordan. Lebenserinnerungen Czernowitzer Juden (2003) and ' – und das Herz wird mir schwer dabei': Czernowitzer Juden erinnern sich (2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0521768306
• ISBN 13: 9780521768306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300