Regions: Lithuania
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Survey Articles (Regional)

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Baltic States and Finland
By Klaus Richter
This article presents a survey of the First World War in the region of today’s s…

Regional Thematic Articles

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Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (East Central Europe)
By Jussi Jalonen, Klaus Richter, Piotr Szlanta
In the countries of East Central Europe, the commemoration of soldiers who fell …
Regional Thematic
Food and Nutrition (East Central Europe)
By Andrea Griffante
The German occupation of the north-western territories of the tsarist empire was…
Regional Thematic
Governments, Parliaments and Parties; Political Movements and Protostate Formation (East Central Europe)
By Klaus Richter, Piotr Szlanta
Political movements in Poland and the Baltics were heavily influenced by the Ger…
Regional Thematic
Historiography 1918-Today (East Central Europe)
By Klaus Richter, Piotr Szlanta
East Central European historians of the First World War have focused and continu…
Regional Thematic
Labour Movements and Strikes (East Central Europe)
By Paweł Brudek
During the First World War, revolutionary changes occurred in the labour movemen…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Agrarian Economic Policies (East Central Europe)
By Klaus Richter
Agrarianism became a major political force in the independent states that emerge…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Economies (East Central Europe)
By Wojciech Morawski
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland – all countries founded after Wo…
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Post-war Military Action and Violence (East Central Europe)
By Jochen Böhler
The armistices of 1918 officially ended the First World War in Europe, but viole…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Societies (East Central Europe)
By Maciej Górny
Although in late 1918 countries of East Central Europe had different forms of go…
Regional Thematic
Press/Journalism (East Central Europe)
By Paweł Brudek
The situation of the press in East Central Europe worsened after the outbreak of…
Regional Thematic
Prisoners of War (East Central Europe)
By Piotr Szlanta, Klaus Richter
During the war, hundreds of thousands of East Central Europeans mobilised to the…
Regional Thematic
Propaganda at Home and Abroad (East Central Europe)
By Paweł Brudek
This article discusses the content and impact of various propaganda strategies w…
Regional Thematic
Revolutions (East Central Europe)
By Paweł Brudek
This article discusses the influence the Russian Revolution had on countries in …
Regional Thematic
War Aims and War Aims Discussions (East Central Europe)
By Jens Boysen
Already in autumn 1914, East Central Europe became a main theatre of operational…
Regional Thematic
Warfare 1914-1918 (East Central Europe)
By Piotr Szlanta, Klaus Richter
Unlike the war on the Western Front, warfare in East Central Europe during the F…

Encyclopedic Entries

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Gabrys, Juozas
By Česlovas Laurinavičius
Juozas Gabrys was one of the major advocates of Lithuanian political aspirations…
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Independence Wars (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia)
By Klaus Richter
The so-called “Wars of Independence” in the Baltics were part of a larger confli…
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Polish-Lithuanian Border Conflict
By Česlovas Laurinavičius
The Polish-Lithuanian border conflict (1914-1924) was a consequence of the proce…
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Smetona, Antanas
By Artūras Svarauskas
During the First World War, political writer and editor of Lithuanian magazines,…
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Union des Nationalités
By Artūras Svarauskas
The Union des Nationalités, alternatively called the Office Central des National…
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Voldemaras, Augustinas
By Artūras Svarauskas
During the First World War, as professor at the University of Perm (Russia), Aug…

See Also

Thematic
Bereavement and Mourning
By Manfred Hettling, Tino Schölz
In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …
Thematic
Occupation during the War
By Gustavo Corni
After an initial wave of interest in 1914 and the immediate post-war period, int…
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Refugees
By Peter Gatrell
This article addresses the scale of wartime population displacement in continent…
Thematic
Resettlement
By Peter Gatrell
The conduct of warfare in 1914-1918 included extensive population resettlement i…
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The Paris Peace Conference and its Consequences
By Alan Sharp
This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…
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Women War Reporters
By Stephanie Seul
Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …

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