Full Description
Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the 'successor states' of the Habsburg Empire. Vanquished and Victorious provides an innovative comparative investigation of veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, two states whose wider political development was of crucial importance to the question of stability in Central Europe after 1918. While differing in terms of how successfully veterans reintegrated into post-war society, this volume shows that both countries incorporated elements of 'cultures of victory and defeat'.
Contents
List of Maps, Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Notes on place names and terms used in manuscript
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Demobilization and Remobilization in the Shadow of Victory and Defeat
Chapter 2. Constructing Veterans: legal Systems and Welfare Policy
Chapter 3. The Landscape of Veterans Associations
Chapter 4. Foreign Representation of the State and Its Veterans
Chapter 5. Revisionism and Remobilization
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
