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Survey Articles (Regional)
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Serbia
By Mile Bjelajac
Regional Thematic Articles
Regional Thematic
Bereavement and Mourning (South East Europe)
By Olga Manojlovic Pintar
The Great War impacted the lives of almost every family in South East Europe. Un…
Regional Thematic
Centenary (Serbia)
By Danilo Šarenac
The anniversary has reaffirmed the belief that the First World War still has a v…
Regional Thematic
Civilian and Military Power (South East Europe)
By John Paul Newman
In pre-war South East Europe, both civilian and military powers focused on the c…
Regional Thematic
Film/Cinema (South East Europe)
By Radina Vučetić
This article offers a synthetic picture of the presence of World War I motifs in…
Regional Thematic
Historiography 1918-Today: Serbia and Montenegro (South East Europe)
By Gordana Krivokapic-Jovic
Serbian historiography was analysed in light of Serbia’s historical position and…
Regional Thematic
Literature: Serbia (South East Europe)
By Gordana Ilić Marković
The Serbian literature of the First World War, written by authors both from the …
Regional Thematic
Occupation during and after the War (Austria-Hungary)
By Wolfram Dornik
While on the Western Front there were only limited territorial movements, the Ea…
Regional Thematic
Occupation during and after the War (South East Europe)
By Milan Ristović
The occupation of South East Europe 1915-1918 had a complex structure reflecting…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Economies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …
Regional Thematic
Post-war Economies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …
Regional Thematic
Post-war Societies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
South East European societies faced several challenges in the post-war period. T…
Regional Thematic
Press/Journalism: Serbia (South East Europe)
By Srđan M. Jovanović
Not unlike its regional counterparts, the standards of press and journalism in S…
Regional Thematic
Pre-war Military Planning (South East Europe)
By Dmitar Tasić
Nations of South East Europe had just ended a short but very intense period of w…
Regional Thematic
Prisoners of War and Internees (South East Europe)
By Bogdan Trifunović
This article analyzes the treatment and living conditions of prisoners of war (P…
Regional Thematic
Propaganda at Home and in Exile (South East Europe)
By Samuel Foster
This article explores the nature of propaganda in those South East European stat…
Regional Thematic
War Aims and War Aims Discussions (South East Europe)
By Mile Bjelajac
This article offers a survey of the main currents in South East Europe in regard…
Regional Thematic
Warfare 1914-1918 (South East Europe)
By Dmitar Tasić
The main intention of this article is to chronologically present major events on…
Regional Thematic
Women's Mobilization for War (South East Europe)
By Božica Mladenović
This article presents the role of women in South East Europe during World War I …
Encyclopedic Entries
Entry
Balkan Wars 1912-1913
By Richard C. Hall
The Balkan Wars were two sharp conflicts that heralded the onset of World War I.…
Entry
Black Hand
By John Paul Newman
This article looks at the Black Hand from its origins to the demise of its leade…
Entry
Chetniks
By Dmitar Tasić
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Chetnik is a common name for a member of the auxiliary or paramilitary units us…
Entry
Karadjordjević, Peter I.
By Dalibor Denda
Peter I Karadjordjević was King of Serbia from 1903 to 1918, and King of Serbs, …
Entry
Pecanac, Kosta
By Dmitar Tasić
Kosta Pecanac was a prominent chetnik leader before the Great War and one of the…
Entry
Prochaska Affair
By Richard C. Hall
The Prochaska Affair was a diplomatic dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia…
Entry
Rape
By Antoine Rivière
Although rape was not usually systematic, it occurred frequently on all fronts d…
Entry
Sanjak of Novi Pazar
By Tamara Scheer
Although sanjak usually means any one of many Ottoman administrative units, one …
Entry
Sarkotić von Lovćen, Stephan Freiherr
By Marc Stefan Peters
Stephan Baron von Sarkotić was an Austro-Hungarian general who had already made …
See Also
Thematic
Alliance System 1914
By Günther Kronenbitter
Alliances were an important feature of the international system on the eve of Wo…
Thematic
Antisemitism
By Werner Bergmann, Ulrich Wyrwa
The First World War and its direct repercussions in the postwar period (revoluti…
Thematic
Atrocities
By Alan Kramer
The term "atrocity" describes an act of violence condemned by contemporaries as …
Thematic
Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen
By Stéphane Tison
The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…
Thematic
Controversy: The Media's Responsibility for Crises and Conflicts in the Age of Imperialism
By Peter Geiss
The article discusses the role of the media in the complex international process…
Thematic
Espionage
By Emmanuel Debruyne
During the entire war, warring powers used the “secret war” to try to break the …
Thematic
Health, Disease, Mortality; Demographic Effects
By Doina Anca Cretu
The rapid spread of epidemics ravaged military personnel and civilians in and ou…
Thematic
Imperialism
By Boris Barth
This article focuses on the extent to which imperialism contributed to the outbr…
Thematic
July Crisis 1914
By Annika Mombauer
The international crisis that began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Fer…
Thematic
Nationalism
By John Paul Newman
This article offers an overview of the progress of nationalism and the national …
Thematic
Paramilitary Violence
By Annemarie Sammartino
While World War I featured the largest armies ever assembled, it was also fought…
Thematic
Post-war Societies
By Richard Bessel
The First World War caused unprecedented disruption to societies across the glob…
Thematic
Prisoners of War
By Heather Jones
The First World War marked the shift from a 19th century, relatively ad hoc mana…
Thematic
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…
Thematic
Social Costs of War
By Kimberly A. Redding
This article explores how the anticipation, reality, and memory of sacrifice inf…
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…
Thematic
The Way to War
By Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.
Imperialism shaped almost every facet of international politics from 1898 to 191…
Thematic
War in the Balkans
By Richard C. Hall
The Balkan Wars erupted in South Eastern Europe in October 1912. Fighting contin…
Thematic
War Losses
By Antoine Prost
Military sources provide the primary statistics of war losses and casualties dur…
Thematic
Willingly to War. Public Response to the Outbreak of War
By Jean-Jacques Becker
It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…
Thematic
Women War Reporters
By Stephanie Seul
Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …
