The Shaken Lands
Balkelis Tomas The Shaken Lands Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914–1923 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....
CfP: Provisioning Crisis and Transformation of East-Central Europe, 1918–1923
From various perspectives and using different methodologies, recent historiography has shown that food ‘decided’ the First World War. Above all, it was the failure of the food provisioning system towards the end of the war that accelerated the disintegration of societies and the internal breakdown of states such as Austria-Hungary. The growing imbalance between appeals to selfsacrifice and the state’s worsening inability to satisfy...
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Balázs Trencsényi, Maciej Janowski, Monika Baar, Maria Falina, and Michal Kopecek A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’ A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offering the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political...
CfP: New Perspectives in the Transnational History of Communism in East-Central Europe
New Perspectives in the Transnational History of Communism in East-Central Europe Abstracts should be sent before March 30, 2014 The organizers of the International Conference New Perspectives in the Transnational History of Communism in East-Central Europe to take place in Poznań, Poland on October 16-17, 2014 invite submission of abstracts. The fall of communism in East Central Europe threw into question many politically imposed...
A forgotten Region?
A Forgotten Region? East Central Europe in the Global Middle Ages Budapest, Hungary, March 27-29, 2014 Deadline for submitting abstracts: November 22, 2013 The Department of Medieval Studies at CEU invites proposals for papers by senior scholars and young academics alike for the two-day conference “A Forgotten Region? East Central Europe in the Global Middle Ages”. Shortly before the political changes in the late 1980s,...
