Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe - The Deluge of 1919

Examines how narratives of the 1919 Central European revolutions promoted a violent counterrevolutionary culture in interwar Germany and Hungary.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Central European roots of revolution; 2. World war and world revolution; 3. Rumor and terror: revolutionary script and political violence; 4. Revolution on trial; 5. Seeing red: dangerous women and Jewish Bolshevism; 6. Remembering the world revolution; Conclusion.

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).

Product details

• Authors: Eliza Ablovatski, Eliza (Kenyon College Ablovatski
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780521768306
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76830-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Central Europe, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)