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The Paris Peace Conference had significant ramifications across Europe, felt by the Great Powers, but also by small states struggling for their recognition and independence, setting the stage for the Second World War. Despite the importance of this conference, many perspectives from European historians remain inaccessible to international audiences because they have not yet been published in English. This has led to a marginalization of voices from some of the countries which have been the most affected by the fallout from the conference. This book remedies this by providing access to the latest research on the topic, based on primary sources and critical analyses of existing publications.
This volume offers a number of perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and its fallout, providing new insights into this crucial point in twentieth-century history from the perspectives of the Great Powers and the small countries struggling for independence, looking at the winners, the losers and the neutral parties. Each chapter offers a detailed examination of a case dating from 1919–1920, or from the aftermath of the Conference. It will be of interest to historians and students of international relations and political science, as well as anyone who wishes to gain a broader perspective on this crucial moment in twentieth-century history.
Thanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost natural global superiority, especially among the middle classes. However, as early as the First World War, such claims came under increasing pressure. This volume explains the role played by modern nationalism and anti-imperial movements, the competition between different political orders, changes in the economy and society, and the great ideas and utopias. Their interplay gave rise to enormously destructive forces in Europe. From the Boer an...
This edited collection offers the first systematic account in English of Italy’s international position from Caporetto – a major turning-point in Italy’s participation in the First World War – to the end of the liberal regime in Italy in 1922. It shows that after the ‘Great War’, not only did Italy establish itself as a regional power but also achieved its post-unification ambition to be recognised, at least from a formal viewpoint, as a great power. This subject is addressed through multiple perspectives, covering Italy’s relations and mutual perceptions vis-à-vis the Allies, the vanquished nations, and the ‘New Europe’. Fourteen contributions by leading historians reappraise Italy’s role in the construction of the post-war international order, drawing on extensive multi-archival and multi-national research, combining for the first time documents from American, Austrian, British, French, German, Italian, Russian and former Yugoslav archives.
Il volume segue l'evoluzione del nazionalismo romeno di Transilvania dalla fine dell'Ottocento agli anni Trenta del Novecento, esaminando il pensiero e l'azione di politici e intellettuali che prima tentarono di preservare l'identità nazionale romena nel contesto dell'Impero asburgico e poi, con la costituzione della Grande Romania nel 1918, adeguarono il loro nazionalismo alla nuova situazione istituzionale, venendo allo stesso tempo influenzati dagli eventi che si stavano sviluppando nel resto d'Europa: la rivoluzione bolscevica, le contraddizioni socio-economiche postbelliche, la nascita dei movimenti fascisti. Lo studio del caso transilvano permette di approfondire alcune dinamiche peculiari del nazionalismo moderno, capace di modificare anche in modo drastico i propri punti di riferimento ideologici, pur nel permanere di un nucleo forte centrato sull'idea del primato della nazione, e in grado quindi di aderire alle più diverse espressioni politiche della modernità: dal liberalismo alla democrazia, dal radicalismo etnico al totalitarismo etnocratico.--
The volume discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. Thus, it addresses one of the key questions of the new political system in post-imperial East Central and Southeast Europe. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective (capital – province, urban political elites – rural voters) to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies with a special interest in the predominantly ethnic Romanian population.
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Traducere de Wilhelm Tauwinkl Având la bază o documentare întinsă pe zece ani, inclusiv în arhive din ţară şi din străinătate sau în presa vremii, cartea istoricului vienez Oliver Jens Schmitt este prima biografie fundamentată ştiinţific a conducătorului mişcării legionare. Cu acest volum, Schmitt umple un gol important în istoriografia românească. Dar o face într-un fel care nu îl pierde nici o clipă din vedere pe cititorul nespecializat: istoria autoproclamatului mântuitor al neamului românesc se desfăşoară în faţa ochilor noştri cu o fluenţă şi naturaleţe ce integrează parcă fără efort minuţioasa cercetare a istoricului. Ascensiunea şi căderea lui...
This volume is the result of the work of 15 researchers from four former communist countries (Poland, Hungary, Romania, Moldova) who approach the relationship between political power and the churches in Central and Eastern Europe during communism from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring several directions: biographies (reconstructing the fate of the heroes of anti-communist resistance); institutions (analysing the mechanisms of repression); memorialisation (museum representations of communist repression); and cultural (cinematographic) representations of the communist past. Dragoș Ursu – PhD in History, with a thesis on political detention in Romania; post-doctoral researcher at the University of Alba Iulia; interested by the history of communist regimes, political repression, memory of anti-communist resistance, state-church relations in the 20th century.