This article presents a survey of the First World War in the region of today’s s…

In the countries of East Central Europe, the commemoration of soldiers who fell …

The German occupation of the north-western territories of the tsarist empire was…

Political movements in Poland and the Baltics were heavily influenced by the Ger…

East Central European historians of the First World War have focused and continu…

During the First World War, revolutionary changes occurred in the labour movemen…

Agrarianism became a major political force in the independent states that emerge…

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland – all countries founded after Wo…

The armistices of 1918 officially ended the First World War in Europe, but viole…

Although in late 1918 countries of East Central Europe had different forms of go…

The situation of the press in East Central Europe worsened after the outbreak of…

During the war, hundreds of thousands of East Central Europeans mobilised to the…

This article discusses the content and impact of various propaganda strategies w…

This article discusses the influence the Russian Revolution had on countries in …

Unlike the war on the Western Front, warfare in East Central Europe during the F…

When Latvia felt endangered by the Bolsheviks they called for German help, since…

The Battle of Cēsis took place on 6-23 June 1919, near Cēsis, Latvia, during Lat…

The so-called “Wars of Independence” in the Baltics were part of a larger confli…

The Latvian Riflemen were Latvian territorial units comprised of nine battalions…

Kārlis Ulmanis was the first prime minister of the Republic of Latvia. His four …

Jukums Vācietis commanded the 5thZemgale Latvian Rifle Battalion. After the Octo…

After an initial wave of interest in 1914 and the immediate post-war period, int…

This article addresses the scale of wartime population displacement in continent…

The conduct of warfare in 1914-1918 included extensive population resettlement i…

This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…