Regions: Czechoslovakia
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Regional Thematic Articles

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Centenary (Czech Republic)
By Jan Adamec
The article describes commemorative acts and festivities marking the centenary o…
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Centenary (Slovakia)
By Michal Kšiňan
Slovakia has a double memory of World War I: the one of former Austro-Hungarian …
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Labour, Labour Movements, Trade Unions and Strikes (Austria-Hungary)
By Jakub Beneš
The First World War was a period of repression and severe privation in Austria-H…
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Post-war Societies (Czechoslovakia)
By Ota Konrád
Although the Czechoslovak Republic experienced social breakdown and a wave of vi…
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Social Conflict and Control, Protest and Repression (Austria-Hungary)
By Maureen Healy, Dana Bronson, Musa Jemal
This essay traces the experience on the plural home fronts of the Habsburg Empir…

Encyclopedic Entries

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Beneš, Edvard
By René Küpper
Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician, diplomat, and close collaborator of Tomáš G…
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Cattaro, Mutiny of
By Paul Lenormand
The mutiny of the sailors on Cattaro, the Austrian-Hungarian Navy Base, occurred…
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Czechoslovak-Hungarian Border Conflict
By Aliaksandr Piahanau
From 1918–1920, Czechoslovakia and Hungary claimed their rights over Slovakia an…
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Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue
By René Küpper
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech politician who started the Czechoslovak indep…
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Refugees (Austria-Hungary)
By Francesco Frizzera
During World War I, about 1.1 million refugees sought refuge in the interior of …
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Štefánik, Milan Rastislav
By Michal Kšiňan
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak astronomer, diplomat, politician, general,…
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The Good Soldier Švejk (novel)
By Maciej Górny
Osudy dobrého vojaka Švejka za světové války (The Good Soldier Švejk) by Jarosl…
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Trialism
By Mateusz Drozdowski
Before and at the beginning of World War I, various proposals concerning the cre…
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Trianon, Treaty of
By Miklós Zeidler
The Treaty of Trianon is one of the Paris peace treaties that ended the First Wo…

See Also

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Antisemitism
By Werner Bergmann, Ulrich Wyrwa
The First World War and its direct repercussions in the postwar period (revoluti…
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Bereavement and Mourning
By Manfred Hettling, Tino Schölz
In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …
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Centenary (Museums)
By Andrea Brait
This article discusses how European museums – in particular, national war museum…
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Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen
By Stéphane Tison
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,…
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International Labour Organization
By Anita Ziegerhofer
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, establishing both the Leagu…
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Post-war Welfare Policies
By Pierluigi Pironti
The Great War gave new impulses to the further development of public welfare sys…
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The Military Collapse of the Central Powers
By Graydon A. Tunstall
October 1918 witnessed the collapse of the German and Austro-Hungarian armies, b…

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