In the Shadow of the Great War

Jochen Böhler is director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. His publications include Civil War in Central Europe: The Reconstruction of Poland, 1918–1921 (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Introduction

Jochen Böhler, Ota Konrád and Rudolf Kučera



Chapter 1. The Baltikumer: Collective Violence and German Paramilitaries after 1918

Mathias Voigtmann



Chapter 2. Pogroms and Imposture: The Violent Self-Formation of Ukrainian Warlords

Christopher Gilley



Chapter 3. Toward an Interactional Theory of Sexual Violence: The White Terror in Hungary between 1919 and 1921

Béla Bodó



Chapter 4. The Many Lives of Mrs. Hamburger: Gender, Violence, and Counter-Revolution, 1919–1930

Emily R. Gioielli



Chapter 5. “A Little Murderous Party”: Poland after the First World War in the Works of Joseph Roth

Winson Chu



Chapter 6. Suicide Discourses: The Austrian Example in the International Context from World War I to the 1930s

Hannes Leidinger



Chapter 7. The “Healthy Nerves” of the Nation: War Neuroses in Austria-Hungary and its Successor States

Maciej Górny



Chapter 8. Forging a “Winning Spirit”: The North American YMCA and the Czechoslovak Army 1918–1921

Ondřej Matějka



Chapter 9. When the Defeated Become Victorious: Averting Violence with Football in Post-1918 Romania

Cătălin Parfene



Afterword: The End of the Great War and Postwar Problems—Research Conclusions

Boris Barth