Sacrifice and Rebirth

The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-835-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book’s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This “splintered war memory,” where some posed as victors and some as losers, does much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cornwall, Mark

Newman, John Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Map of Ex-Habsburg Europe in the Interwar Period

Introduction: A Conflicted and Divided Habsburg Memory

Mark Cornwall

PART I: SACRIFICE AND THE VANQUISHED

Chapter 1. Competing Interpretations of Sacrifice in the Postwar Austrian Republic

Catherine Edgecombe and Maureen Healy

Chapter 2. “War in Peace”: Remobilization and “National Rebirth” in Austria and Hungary

Robert Gerwarth

Chapter 3. Apocalypse and the Quest for a Sudeten German Männerbund in Czechoslovakia

Mark Cornwall

Chapter 4. The Divided War Remembrance of Transylvanian Magyars

Franz Sz. Horváth

PART II: SACRIFICE AND THE DISCOURSE OF VICTORY

Chapter 5. Framing the Hero: Photographic Narratives of War in the Inter-War Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes

Melissa Bokovoy

Chapter 6. National Sacrifice and Regeneration: Commemorations of the Battle of Zborov in Multinational Czechoslovakia

Nancy M. Wingfield

Chapter 7. “In the Spirit of Brotherhood, United We Remain!”: The Independent Union of Czechoslovak Legionaries and the Militarist State

Katya Kocourek

Chapter 8. “Saving Greater Romania”: The Romanian Legionary Movement and the “New Man”

Rebecca Haynes

PART III: SACRIFICE IN SILENCE

Chapter 9. Silent Liquidation? Croatian Veterans and the Margins of War Memory in Interwar Yugoslavia

John Paul Newman

Chapter 10. The Sacrificed Slovenian Memory of the Great War

Petra Svoljšak

Chapter 11. The Dead and the Living: War Veterans and Memorial Culture in Inter-War Polish Galicia

Christoph Mick

Chapter 12. Divided Land, Diverging Narratives: Memory Cultures of the Great War in the Successor Regions of Tyrol

Laurence Cole

Notes on Contributors

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cornwall, Mark
Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton. He is author of The Undermining of Austria-Hungary. The Battle for Hearts and Minds (2000) and The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (2012).

Newman, John Paul
John Paul Newman is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at Maynooth University. He is author of Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building 1903-1945 (2015) and coeditor, with Julia Eichenberg, of The Great War and Veterans’ Internationalism (2013).

Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton. He is author of The Undermining of Austria-Hungary. The Battle for Hearts and Minds (2000) and The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (2012).