Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921 - The Reconstruction of Poland

Civil War in Central Europe argues that Polish independence after the First World War was forged in the fires of the post-war conflicts which should be collectively referred to as the Central European Civil War (1918-1921). The ensuing violence forced those living in European border regions to decide on their national identity - German or Polish.

List of contents

• List of Illustrations and Maps


• Introduction


• 1: Nations, States, and Conflicts in Central Europe


• 2: How to Mobilize the Polish Nation


• 3: The Central European Civil War


• 4: Violence and Crimes Beyond the Battlefields


• Conclusion


• Epilogue

About the author

Jochen Boehler is a Research Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena, where he teaches courses on the history of early twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. His most recent publications include War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland (2014) alongside Jurgen Matthäus and Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Legacies of Violence: Eastern Europe's First World War (2014) with Joachim von Puttkamer and Wlodzimierz Borodziej and The Waffen-SS. A European History (2016) with Robert Gerwarth.

Summary

Civil War in Central Europe argues that Polish independence after the First World War was forged in the fires of the post-war conflicts which should be collectively referred to as the Central European Civil War (1918-1921). The ensuing violence forced those living in European border regions to decide on their national identity - German or Polish.

Additional text

According to Böhler, "self-determination" was an unsuitable recipe for structuring a multi-ethnic region. This becomes particularly clear in his fourth chapter "Violence and Crimes Beyond the Battlefields", in which Böhler draws a panorama where anti-Semitic pogroms, skirmishes, violent oppression of the rural population and death blend into each other. Hunger, disease and other hardships plagued the country. [...] Böhler has presented a differentiated description of these violence scenarios, largely reconstructed on the base of a variety of sources.

Product details

• Authors: Jochen (Research Fellow Boehler, Jochen (Research Fellow Bohler, Jochen Böhler
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780192867018
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286701-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: The Greater War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Poland, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Central Europe, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), History and Archaeology, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General