The article describes commemorative acts and festivities marking the centenary o…
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Regional Thematic Articles
Slovakia has a double memory of World War I: the one of former Austro-Hungarian …
Regional Thematic
By Jakub Beneš
The First World War was a period of repression and severe privation in Austria-H…
Although the Czechoslovak Republic experienced social breakdown and a wave of vi…
Regional Thematic
By Maureen Healy, Dana Bronson, Musa Jemal
This essay traces the experience on the plural home fronts of the Habsburg Empir…
Encyclopedic Entries
Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician, diplomat, and close collaborator of Tomáš G…
The mutiny of the sailors on Cattaro, the Austrian-Hungarian Navy Base, occurred…
From 1918–1920, Czechoslovakia and Hungary claimed their rights over Slovakia an…
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech politician who started the Czechoslovak indep…
During World War I, about 1.1 million refugees sought refuge in the interior of …
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak astronomer, diplomat, politician, general,…
Osudy dobrého vojaka Švejka za světové války (The Good Soldier Švejk) by Jarosl…
Before and at the beginning of World War I, various proposals concerning the cre…
The Treaty of Trianon is one of the Paris peace treaties that ended the First Wo…
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The First World War and its direct repercussions in the postwar period (revoluti…
In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …
This article discusses how European museums – in particular, national war museum…
The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…
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Crumbling of Empires and Emerging States: Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia as (Multi)national Countries
By Katrin Boeckh
During the First World War, Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats,…
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, establishing both the Leagu…
The Great War gave new impulses to the further development of public welfare sys…
October 1918 witnessed the collapse of the German and Austro-Hungarian armies, b…