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The volume focuses on violence during the breakdown of East Central European states brought by one of the most violent periods in modern European history: from the start of the Great War in 1914 until 1923 when Europe, finally, achieved peace after a series of civil conflicts and interstate wars.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Tomas Balkelis and Andrea Griffante
Contributors
1. The Evolution of Wartime Criminality in Lithuania,
1914–1920
Vytautas Petronis
2. War Violence and
Its Representation: A Comparison of Civilian Experiences of the Great War on
Both Sides of the Former Russian-German Border
Vasilijus Safronovas, Vygantas Vareikis, and Hektoras Vitkus
3. The Military
Pogroms in Lithuania, 1919–1920
Darius Staliūnas
4. Scandinavian Volunteers as Perpetrators of Violence and
Crime in the Estonian War of Independence
Mart Kuldkepp
5. The Rich and the
(In)famous: Social Conflicts and Paramilitary Violence in Hungary during the
Counterrevolution, 1921–1923
Béla Bodó
6. The Polish Central
Government, Regional Authorities, and Local Paramilitaries during the Battle
for the Western Borderlands, 1918–1921
Jochen Böhler
7. Eisenbahnfeldzug:
Railway War in East Central Europe
Maciej Górny
8. Beyond Comparison?
The Challenges of Applying Comparative Historical Research to Violence
Julia Eichenberg
About the author
Tomas Balkelis is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. He is the author of The Making of Modern Lithuania (Routledge, 2009) and War, Revolution and Nation-Making in Lithuania (Oxford University Press, 2018). His research fields include nation-building, forced migrations, population displacement, and paramilitary violence in Lithuania, Russia, and Poland.
Andrea Griffante is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. He received his MA at the University of Trieste and his PhD in history at Klaipėda University. His latest monograph is Children, Poverty, and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940 (Palgrave, 2019). His research fields include history of humanitarianism, nation-building, history of childhood, and social history of medicine.
