Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941 The Failure of Democracy-building, the Fate of Minorities Routledge Studies in Modern European History Series
Coordonnateur : Ramet Sabrina
This monograph focuses on the challenges that interwar regimes faced and how they coped with them in the aftermath of World War One, focusing especially on the failure to establish and stabilize democratic regimes, as well as on the fate of ethnic and religious minorities. Topics explored include the political systems and how they changed during the two decades under review, land reform, Church?state relations, and culture. Countries studied include Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.
"Sabrina Ramet has assembled a team of highly respectable country specialists to offer a fresh and historiographically updated reading of interwar developments in East Central Europe. The volume is bookended by two excellent comparative and theoretically informed essays carefully weighing the multiplicity of factors contributing to the instability of the interwar regimes. As a result this survey succeeds admirably in producing a nuanced narrative and analysis." - Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Sabrina Ramet, together with a roster of other eminent scholars, has produced an exciting new history of interwar East Central Europe. The volume has a clear focus on the failure of democracy (1918 to 1941), and on the bedeviling issues of ethnic minorities and of peasants; the latter made up an overwhelming majority of much of the region's population. The book will be of great interest to political scientists and historians of East Central Europe, and of Europe more generally, and it is perfect for classroom use. - Irina Livezeanu, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941: The failure of democracy-building, the fate of minorities – An introduction
- Interwar Poland: The geopolitics of failure
- Interwar Czechoslovakia – a national state for a multi-ethnic population
- Interwar Hungary: Democratization and the Fate of Minorities
- Interwar Romania: Enshrining ethnic privilege
- Interwar Bulgaria: populism, authoritarianism, and ethnic minorities
- The Kingdom of Diversity and Paternalism: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/Yugoslavia, 1918-1941
- Interwar Albania
- The Peasantries and Peasant Parties of East Central Europe
- Afterword
Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway.
Date de parution : 05-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 05-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème d’Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941 :
Mots-clés :
Interwar East Central Europe; Albanian History; East Central Europe; Romanian History; Croatian Peasant Party; Yugoslav History; Peasant Parties; Czechoslovak History; Sudeten German; Bulgarian History; King Carol II; Mass Violence in World History; East Central European Countries; Nationalism; King Aleksandar; Fascism; IMRO; Communism; South Slav; The White Terror; King Zog; Kingdom of the Serbs; Croats and Slovenes; Nichifor Crainic; religious minorities; Yugoslav Nationalists; Balkan States; land reform; Bulgarian Authorities; World Wars; Yugoslav Muslim Organization; democracy-building; Eastern Rite Catholics; Slovene People’s Party; Ethnic Germans; Iuliu Maniu; La Belle; Liberal International Community; National Committee; State Land Fund; Northern Transylvania