This paper presents the process of building an independent Polish state during t…

Contrary to the Great War, the regaining of Polish independence in 1918 has long…

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

Until 1914, cinema in the Polish lands was shaped by borders between the partiti…

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…

While on the Western Front there were only limited territorial movements, the Ea…

This article examines the politics of the German (Generalgouvernement Warschau) …

During the First World War, Józef Piłsudski and his followers invented the legen…

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 …

Already in autumn 1914, East Central Europe became a main theatre of operational…

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

Jan Bloch was an entrepreneur, social activist and pacifist. At the end of his l…

Ignacy Daszyński was one of the foremost figures on the Polish political scene i…

Roman Stanisław Dmowski was a Polish politician and most importantly the co-foun…

General Józef Haller was one of the best known Polish military commanders of the…

The Battle of Kostiuchnówka occurred during the Brusilov Offensive in the Volhyn…

In World War I Lemberg (German: Lemberg, Ukrainian: Lviv, Polish: Lwów) played a…

Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a virtuoso pianist. He made use of his popularity in t…

Józef Klemens Piłsudski was a Polish statesman, socialist politician, freedom fi…

The Bayonne Company was the first Polish unit in France, formed in 1914 as a uni…

In the 19th century, the German-Polish borderlands became the object of national…

The Związek Legionistów Polskich (Polish Legionaries Union), or ZLP, was an asso…

At the outbreak of the Great War, two Polish Legions were formed within the Aust…

The Polish-Lithuanian border conflict (1914-1924) was a consequence of the proce…

The Polish Army was born out of the chaos of revolutionary Russia. The Russian a…

Polish paramilitary organizations were active in Galicia from 1910 to 1914 with …

The hostilities between Bolshevik Russia and Poland started as early as 1919. In…

The Polish-Ukrainian conflict over Eastern Galicia in 1918-19 refers to an armed…

Although rape was not usually systematic, it occurred frequently on all fronts d…

The Treaty of Riga was signed by Poland and the Soviet state on 18 March 1921 an…

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw was originally built to honor the fall…

Before and at the beginning of World War I, various proposals concerning the cre…

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 …

Innovative historical scholarship played an important role in the shaping of mem…

This article discusses how European museums – in particular, national war museum…

The end of fighting in 1918 raised hopes for swift and equitable military demobi…

This article examines the conditions, forms and consequences of forced labor and…

The rapid spread of epidemics ravaged military personnel and civilians in and ou…

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, establishing both the Leagu…

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, the same day on which the L…

The First World War caused unprecedented disruption to societies across the glob…

This article summarizes and compares the principal arguments and strategies of p…

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 explores how the anticipation, reality, and memory of sacrifice inf…

This essay examines how the "everyday" functions in war, not only for those on t…

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

Veterans’ associations formed an influential social movement during the interwar…

Military sources provide the primary statistics of war losses and casualties dur…

Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …

This article provides an overview of xenophobia during the First World War - nam…