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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…
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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 …
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Regional Thematic
Food and Nutrition (East Central Europe)
By Andrea Griffante
The German occupation of the north-western territories of the tsarist empire was…
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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…
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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…
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Labour Movements and Strikes (East Central Europe)
By Paweł Brudek
During the First World War, revolutionary changes occurred in the labour movemen…
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Post-war Agrarian Economic Policies (East Central Europe)
By Klaus Richter
Agrarianism became a major political force in the independent states that emerge…
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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…
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Post-war Societies (East Central Europe)
By Maciej Górny
Although in late 1918 countries of East Central Europe had different forms of go…
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Press/Journalism (East Central Europe)
By Paweł Brudek
The situation of the press in East Central Europe worsened after the outbreak of…
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Prisoners of War (East Central Europe)
By Piotr Szlanta, Klaus Richter
During the war, hundreds of thousands of East Central Europeans mobilised to the…
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Propaganda at Home and Abroad (East Central Europe)
By Paweł Brudek
This article discusses the content and impact of various propaganda strategies w…
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Regional Thematic
Revolutions (East Central Europe)
By Paweł Brudek
This article discusses the influence the Russian Revolution had on countries in …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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Resettlement
By Peter Gatrell
The conduct of warfare in 1914-1918 included extensive population resettlement i…
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Thematic
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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