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Liberation, Resettlement, and Looting in Postwar Memoirs from Poland East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jakub Isański
The postwar months and years in Central and Eastern Europe were marked by mass migrations caused by border changes, the return of many refugees and former prisoners to their homes, and many peoples’ search for new places to settle down in the wake of war. Population movements were often marked by a kind of social vacuum that was frequently characterized by lawlessness, plunder, and violence to which
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Alexander Szalai: A Transsystemic Career and Hungarian Sociology in the Cold War Era East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 György Péteri
Through a detailed analysis of Alexander Szalai’s career as a major transsystemic academic entrepreneur in the Kádár era, this paper has been written to discern and assess how such activities impacted the ways in which science and scholarship worked at both sides of the systemic divide (the “Iron Curtain”). The single most important finding is the emergence of transsystemic spaces (fields), the undoing
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Beyond “The Power of the Powerless”: the Political Thought and Polemics of the Czechoslovak Opposition, 1977–1980 East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Milan Hanyš
The article focuses on the political thought of the Czechoslovak opposition during the brief period from the creation of Charter 77 to 1980. It analyzes the themes of Václav Havel’s essay “The Power of the Powerless” within the context of the political thought of Czechoslovak dissidents. In doing so, it reveals various positions that were highly critical of Havel’s formulation of dissent. It is argued
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Doing Business across the Iron Curtain: Trade and Financial Relations between the United Kingdom and Hungary, 1945–1956 East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Gyula Hegedüs
This article explores economic relations between the United Kingdom and Hungary between 1944 and 1956. After the Second World War, the UK attempted to maintain some of its influence in Soviet-occupied Hungary by resuming trade relations with the country as early as 1946. Financial discussions around settling Hungary’s debts began a year later, but they ended abruptly in December 1949. British-Hungarian
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Introduction: The Sokol Movement between State and Society in Interwar East Central and Southeastern Europe East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Lucija Balikić, John Paul Newman, Vojtěch Pojar
This special issue is the result of the three year-long collaboration between the contributors and a larger group of scholars on the topic of Sokol and analogous organizations and phenomena mainly in East Central Europe in the modern era. Our goal was to examine such organizations from multiple perspectives, including the history of political thought, the history of knowledge production, military history
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Making Gymnastics Catholic: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of the Croatian Orao in Interwar Yugoslavia East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Fabio Giomi
This article focuses on the Croatian Orao, a gymnastic organization that became hegemonic among the Croatian Catholic population of interwar Yugoslavia. The first section examines the genesis of the Croatian Orao within the changing Catholic landscape of Croatia, Yugoslavia, and Europe more broadly, with particular emphasis on Orao’s relationships with Orel – a gymnastic movement very similar to Orao
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Paradoxes of the Czechoslovak Sokol Association in the Interwar Period East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 John Paul Newman
The article addresses some of the paradoxes of the interwar Czechoslovak Sokol Association. It shows how after 1918 Sokol historiography experienced a boom following national independence: a proliferation of accounts of the Sokol movement’s history to date told in largest part by the leadership of the association itself. These accounts re-narrated the history of the movement so that it became well-adjusted
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“Politics of Plastic Nationhood”: Sokol Mass Gymnastics and Eugenics Between Empire and Nation-States East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Lucija Balikić, Vojtěch Pojar
This article examines how mass gymnastics in East Central Europe became increasingly entangled with eugenics. It traces the proliferation of eugenic discourses alongside the medicalization of gymnastics within Sokol, a mass nationalist voluntary association. In this context, the bodies of gymnasts became crucial sites of knowledge production and ideological projection. The article introduces the “politics
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The Role of Architecture in Shaping Sokol Visual Identity in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Vladana Putnik Prica
The interwar period is considered to be the “golden age” of the Sokol movement in Yugoslavia, when the organization enjoyed the support of the state and much of the population. One of the key elements in the process of shaping the visual identity of the Yugoslav Sokol was its purpose-built architecture, namely Sokolski dom (Sokol hall or center) and Sletište (Sokol stadium). It is estimated that there
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Yunak Gymnastic Societies in Interwar Bulgaria East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Ivaylo Nachev
This article explores the history of the Yunak Union’s gymnastic societies in Bulgaria during the turbulent interwar period. It discusses the evolution of one the largest civil society organizations in the country, shedding light on this heretofore understudied topic. It examines Yunak societies as a complex and distinct social phenomenon that combined physical training with moral education and the
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Failures, Limits and Competition: Campaigns on Behalf of Eastern European Dissidents in Cold War Belgium, 1956–1989 East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Kim Christiaens, Manuel Herrera Crespo
This article examines the ways in which campaigns supportive of dissidents and human rights in Eastern Europe developed in Belgium during the Cold War. The Belgian case study reveals the critical role of internationally oriented Catholic organizations and social movements in these campaigns. This Catholic activism has often been neglected in mainstream accounts focusing on left-wing or liberal support
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Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky: Professional Networks, Human Rights and Dissent in the Late Cold War East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Charlotte Alston
This article explores the challenge presented to governments and the scientific establishment by physicists who campaigned internationally on behalf of their Soviet scientific colleagues in the early 1980s. Cold War science operated in a highly charged environment: while the work of scientists on both sides of the Cold War divide was sponsored and closely guarded by government and military agencies
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“Do onto Yourself”: Leading the Church in the 1970s Romania through Self-Policing and Self-Censorship East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Anca Șincan
The paper discusses several responses to the secret police’s (non-)involvement in religious matters that posed direct or indirect problems for the regime. The secret police’s attitude of allowing communities leeway in dealing with problematic situations had several motivations: to create a culture of self-policing and self-censorship that would defer the punishment to the hierarchical chain of the
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The Estonian “Little Singing Revolution” of 1960: From Spontaneous Practices to Ideological Manipulations East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Aigi Rahi-Tamm
The article covers the 15th General Song Festival “20 Years of Soviet Estonia,” held in Tallinn in July 1960, with about 30,000 participants. During the festival, the choirs started to sing popular songs and banned songs on their own initiative, leading to the festival being called “a small singing revolution”. It was a time of changes when both the authorities and the people were testing the limits
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Transfiguring Depression: Personal and Collective Identity in Cioran’s Interwar Writings East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Ștefan Firică
Comparative research conducted recently proves that the antimodernist national characterologies produced by interwar authors from the mesoregion make up a transnational genre. This article looks into the texts of the young Romanian Emil Cioran, a prominent writer of the group, in order to support two lines of argument. First, that it is topical for researchers to consider the ways in which these authors
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“Closing the Abyss of Moral Misery”: Poland, the League of Nations and the Fight against the Trafficking of Women and Children East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Jasmin Nithammer
The study focuses on the emerging Second Polish Republic and its involvement in the international fight against the trafficking of women and children under the auspices of the League of Nations. In conflict with all neighbouring states, Poland was highly dependent on support from the new Western Entente-backed international system and in turn had to adhere closely to existing conventions and newly
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Foreign Relations between Hungary and Latin America in the Early Years of the Cold War (1947–1959) East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Emőke Horváth
This article examines Hungarian foreign relations toward Latin America in the period between the end of World War ii and the victory of the Cuban Revolution and characterizes the problems raised by the general guidelines of Hungarian foreign policy toward the region. It seeks to answer the following questions: What political influences triggered Hungary’s turn toward Latin America? Is it possible to
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From the Normalization of Relations to Dwindling Interest and Indifference: Mexican–Hungarian Ties between 1974–1989 East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Mónika Szente-Varga, Agustín Sánchez Andrés
This article offers an overview of the political, economic, and cultural aspects of Hungarian–Mexican relations during the last 15 years of the Cold War. After a more than 30-year interruption, the normalization of diplomatic relations (1974) was made possible by a change in the foreign policy orientation of Mexico, in the context of improving East–West relations, in particular an improvement of US–Hungarian
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Resisting Nazi Racism in Post-Habsburg Spaces: Connecting the Debates in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Yugoslavia in the Early 1930s East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Vojtěch Pojar
After the Nazis rose to power in Germany, post-Habsburg Central Europe became a major site of resistance against Nazi racial theories. So far, historians have treated these voices as isolated cases. My paper focuses on several texts discussing race, racism, and eugenics that were written in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s. I contextualize these texts and trace their circulation in post-Habsburg spaces
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Cold War Relations between Hungary and Brazil from a Semi-Peripheral Perspective (1960–1980) East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Bernadett Lehoczki
During the Cold War, searching for trade benefits and opportunities of diversification motivated the Hungarian government and certain Latin American countries to build economic ties, especially between 1960 and 1980. Economic globalization as an external and state-led industrialization as an internal factor served as motivations to build links between command economy Hungary and “capitalist” Latin
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The Great Idea is Dead, Long Live the Great Ideas: Modernist Projects in the Shadow of the Greek Interwar Crisis East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Vassilios A. Bogiatzis
The “Asia Minor Catastrophe” cast its heavy shadow over Greek interwar era developments in two fundamental ways: first, there was the terror of the ideological void after the bankruptcy of the Hellenic “Great Idea” due to the military defeat in Asia Minor; and second, the physical arrival in Greece of an almost 1,500,000 refugee population after their expulsion from Turkey. This paper argues that against
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Novoselitsa – “An Insignificant Barrier”: Transborder Experiences at the Imperial Periphery in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Philippe Henri Blasen, Andrei Cușco
This article focuses on Russian Novoselitsa, a small town on the Russian-Austro-Hungarian-Romanian border, which served as the sole border crossing between Russian Bessarabia and Austrian Bukovina. From 1893 it was also an important railway junction between the two empires. Based on diplomatic documents from the Austrian State Archives, the article discusses Austrian officials’ views of ethnoreligious
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Phrasing the Yugoslav Crisis: Jovan Mirić and the Constitutional Debates of the 1980s East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Agustin Cosovschi
In this article, I analyze the debate triggered in Yugoslavia in 1984 by Jovan Mirić’s book The System and the Crisis. Drawing from a wide corpus of sources, mainly from the Yugoslav press and the intellectual production of the time, I argue that the episode sheds light on many aspects of the Yugoslav crisis. First, it shows the ultimate incapacity of certain actors of the Yugoslav political and intellectual
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Serving the Empire? The Ukrainian Nobility in the Late Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Svitlana Potapenko
The focus of this article lays on the Cossack-rooted noble stratum on the Left Bank Ukrainian lands in the course of the long nineteenth century. It is asserted that various aspects of the issue have attracted scholarly attention in recent decades. The author approaches the subject through the examination of literary and historical works as well as private historical collections which the Ukrainian
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Segal, Raz, Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914–1945 East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Leslie Waters
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Hájková, Anna. The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Denisa Nešťáková
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Antal, Attila. The Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orbán Regime East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Kyle Shybunko
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Bettina Fabos, writer, producer, creator; Leslie Waters and Kristina Poznan, historical advising and editing; Dana Potter, designer; Collin Cahill, Jacob Espenscheid, and Connor Thorson, code; Isaac Campbell, animation. “Proud and Torn: A Visual Memoir of Hungarian History” East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Robert Nemes
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Wimmer, Andreas. Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Ágoston Berecz
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The Past, Present, and Future of Comparative History in East Central Europe and Beyond East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Wendy Bracewell,Ulf Brunnbauer,Diana Mishkova,Joachim von Puttkamer,Philipp Ther
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The Creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Montenegro’s Memory: Shaping National Identity East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Agata Domachowska
The aim of this paper is to investigate the position and role occupied by the memory of events of 1918–1919 in shaping and strengthening the national identity of Montenegrins. It begins with a theoretical introduction concerning the role of historical events in shaping national identity. Then it presents in a synthetic manner the situation of Montenegro before the outbreak of the Great War. The subsequent
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From Hitler’s Disciple to Wartime Refugee: Donauschwaben World War ii Childhoods and the Crossroads of Historical Agency East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Caroline Mezger
Building on recent investigations into children as historical actors, this article examines the experiences of ethnic German (Donauschwaben) expellees from northern Yugoslavia’s Vojvodina region. Using original oral history interviews, the article embeds these individuals’ childhood experiences of World War ii and expulsion into their greater life stories, thereby highlighting children’s multifaceted
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The Informal Use of Time as a Component of Multicultural Regional Identity in Transcarpathia (Ukraine) East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Csilla Fedinec, István Csernicskó
Based on the data of sociological research, the analysis of the linguistic landscapes of Transcarpathian cities, and quotations from travel guides, this paper illustrates that in Transcarpathia, a significant part of the population—regardless of ethnicity—live their lives not according to the official Kyiv time (eet), but according to the local time (cet). The difference between official centralized
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Nicasius Ellebodius and the “otium litterarum” The Vicissitudes of a Flemish Humanist in Pozsony (1571–77) East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Áron Orbán
This study reviews Nicasius Ellebodius’s Pozsony (today: Bratislava) period (1571–77) from a biographical and intellectual historical perspective. Ellebodius (1535–1577) was a Flemish philologist of vast erudition, one of the finest Graecists of his day. His biography and character are much less discussed in scholarship than his works, although his letters provide us with invaluable information about
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Portrait Series of Polish, Bohemian, and Hungarian Rulers in the Nineteenth Century An Interpretation East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Karolina Mroziewicz
The article discusses the ubiquity of portrait series of Polish, Bohemian, and Hungarian rulers and determines their place in what Michael Billig calls “the dialectic of collective remembering and forgetting, and of imagination and unimaginative repetition” (: 10), which formed the national identifications of Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians in the nineteenth century. The objective of this article is
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Vonnard, Philippe, Nicola Sbetti, and Grégory Quin, Beyond Boycotts: Sport during the Cold War in Europe East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Johanna Mellis
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Feinberg, Melissa. Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Klára Pinerová
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Nagy, Zsolt. Great Expectations and Interwar Realities: Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Andrew Behrendt
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Black Female Bodies and the “White” View: The Dahomey Amazon Shows in Poland at the End of the Nineteenth Century East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Dominika Czarnecka
This article contributes to the studies of living human exhibitions in Eastern Europe or, more precisely, in Polish territory in the late partition period. The article intends to demonstrate the strategies of presenting Black African women in Warsaw, Cracow, and Poznań. The idea of construing the view has been used as a key concept to look into the processes of the sexualization and racialization of
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Buffalo Bill and Patriotism: Criticism of the Wild West Show in the Polish-Language Press in Austrian Galicia in 1906 East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
The article juxtaposes two perspectives guiding the perception of ethnographic shows, namely, a contemporary and an earlier one. The article uses the example of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, staged in 1906 in the Polish territories under Austrian rule. Deriving from present criticisms of ethnographic shows and their interpretation through the prism of colonial studies, the author examines the types
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Contextualizing Ethnographic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Dominika Czarnecka, Dagnosław Demski
The article serves as the introduction to the special issue focusing on ethnographic shows and the production of knowledge regarding Others in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It aims at presenting the characteristics and conditions of research in Central and Eastern Europe, which may be considered an extension of Western Europe in terms of geography, communication, economy, technology
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The Modernity of Interwar Turkey through the Eyes of Yugoslav Travelers (1923–1939) East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Anđelko Vlašić
The modernization efforts of the early Republic of Turkey were a recurrent theme of books and newspaper articles written by interwar Yugoslav travelers in Turkey. Their views on Turkish modernity were based on a dichotomy between the “old,” “traditional,” and “backward” Ottoman Empire and the “new,” “modern,” and “revolutionary” Turkish Republic. Their comments reveal the Yugoslav public’s self-perception:
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Others among Others: Latvians’ View of Members of Ethnographic Shows East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenkova
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Latvians, like several other non-dominant nations that were part of large European empires, actively argued for their status as a nation and fought for the right to be equal partners in economy and politics and for the recognition of their culture. The process of constructing an ethnic identity involves not only inclusion, but also the formation of boundaries
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Relocating the “Human Zoo”: Exotic Displays, Metropolitan Identity, and Ethnographic Knowledge in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 László Kontler
This article inquires into the meaning and valence of late nineteenth-century exotic displays in Budapest, a location without the colonial stakes that apparently determined the course of the “human zoo” in most Western European contexts. It explores the reporting on ethnic shows in the metropolitan press, points out stereotypical and more idiosyncratic representations, and examines these against the
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“The Samoans Are Here!”: Samoan Ethnic Shows, 1895–1911 East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Hilke Thode-Arora
Between 1895 and 1911, three groups of Samoans traveled to Germany to take part in ethnic shows. There were titled and high-ranking persons in each of the groups. This article explores the recruiting, organizing, and reception of the shows, contextualizing the European and Samoan perspectives, which differed significantly. In addition to written, visual, and material sources in Samoan, New Zealand
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Spaces of Modernity: Ethnic Shows in Poznań, 1879–1914 East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Dagnosław Demski
The focus of this article is on the ethnic shows organized in Poznań, a middle-sized European city that was part of the network of German Völkerschauen between 1879 and 1914. The author places the ethnic shows in the context of modern urban experience, where the establishment of zoological garden space enabled direct interactions between actors, animals, and the audience, thus creating a distinct sensory
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Between Three Seas: Borders, Migrations, Connections East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Balázs Nagy,Katalin Szende
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Are There Rules in War?: On the Importance of War Booty for the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteenth-Century Holy Land East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Benjámin Borbás
This article summarizes new research on the custom of distributing the spoils of war amongst active military participants in the Holy Land. A letter of guarantee records an agreement between John of Brienne, king of Jerusalem, and the Teutonic Knights right after the capture of Damietta (1219) during the Fifth Crusade. This document is compared with contemporary sources reporting on military actions
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Crusading Companies in the 1365th Year of Our Lord East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Tamás Ölbei
Louis of Hungary recognized the danger of the Ottomans and actively participated in the preparation of a crusade devoted to erasing the enemies of Christ from the Balkans. To achieve this he, along with Pope Urban v, the emperor Charles iv, and Charles v, designed a plan to send the most feared soldiers of their time, the “Magna Socieatas,” against the “Saracens,” the “proud disciples of Lucifer.”
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Exile and Return?: Gdańsk in the Aftermath of the Teutonic Order’s Actions in Pomerelia during the First Half of the Fourteenth Century East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Błażej Śliwiński, Beata Możejko
After the Teutonic Knights successfully broke through Gdańsk’s defenses on 12/13 November 1308, they set about massacring not only those knights who supported the rule of the margraves and Brandenburg, but also Gdańsk’s burghers. In 1310, Pope Clement v set up a special commission to investigate whether it was true that the Teutonic Knights had killed more than ten thousand people in Gdańsk. The Teutonic
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“On Tour” from Aachen to Rome: King Sigismund and His Hungarian Entourage (1414–1433) East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Attila Bárány
Sigismund of Luxemburg, King of Hungary spent much time journeying abroad. His “itinerant” court visited diverse places from Istria to Wallachia. The members of his entourage, mainly a new generation of homo novus lords, escorted him from the Aachen (1414) to the Rome (1433) coronations and were active in foreign service. This article reconstructs the itinerant entourage mostly during the Council of
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Power, Memory, and Allegiance: Coats of Arms of Bishops and a Pope in Western Estonia East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Anu Mänd
A dozen limestone reliefs with the coats of arms of a bishop and a bishopric have survived from the churches and castles of late medieval Livonia (a historical region roughly corresponding to present-day Estonia and Latvia). This article discusses a selection of those reliefs in western Estonia, in the two centers—Haapsalu and Kuressaare—of the former Saare-Lääne Bishopric. In earlier scholarship,
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Rituals of Mobility and Hospitality in the Teutonic Knights East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Nicholas W. Youmans
It is a basic feature of human existence that we engage in acts of mobility and hospitality and thereby seek to infuse liminal moments marked by ambiguity or disorientation with symbolic meaning. Considerable instances from pre-modern history can be found in the communal acts of the Teutonic Order. The current article seeks to show how the dual social identity of the Teutonic Knights, that is, their
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Victims of Political Choice: Noble Refugees from Dobrzyń Land, 1391–1405 and Later East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Sobiesław Szybkowski
The political history of the small territory of Dobrzyń Land became much more complex at the beginning of Władysław Jagiełło’s rule (1386–1434). Władysław of Opole pledged part of Dobrzyń Land (the castle of Złotoria, 1391) to the Teutonic Knights. Then in 1392, after a short war against the king of Poland, Władysław of Opole pawned the entirety of Dobrzyń Land to the Teutonic knights. Neither King
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Debate on Pieter M. Judson’s The Habsburg Empire: A New History East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Erika Szívós, Jan Surman, Jakub Beneš, Mladen Medved, Tamara Scheer, Maureen Healy, Pieter M. Judson
Since its publication, Pieter M. Judson’s history of the Habsburg Empire: A New History has sparked discussion and debate as a result of its novel reframing of the relationship between nationalism and empire in the Central European polity. Judson offers a new narrative of a vibrant and adaptive state that had the ability to balance empire and nationality, and thus was not doomed to fail, as has been
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Croatia and the Rise of Fascism: The Youth Movement and the Ustasha During wwii , written by Miljan, Goran East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-04-04 Roland Clark
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Those Who Count: Expert Practices of Roma Classification, written by Surdu, Mihai East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-04-04 Sunnie Rucker-Chang
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Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe: Historical Perspectives, written by Petric, Hrvoje, and Ivana Zebec Silj East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-04-04 Jan-Henrik Meyer
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Approaches to Life Story Analyses of Multigenerational Hungarian Worker Families in the Twentieth Century East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-04-04 Tibor Valuch
The main aim of the research project, that also includes this paper, is the investigation of the social history of Hungarian factory workers from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century in the case of Ózd, a small industrial city in northeast Hungary. For the purpose of this research the author uses not only the traditional historical and statistical sources and methods, but
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The Birth of the Militant Self: Working-Class Memoirs of Late Russian Poland East Central Europe (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-04-04 Wiktor Marzec
The 1905 Revolution was often considered by workers writing memoirs as the most important event in their lives. This paper examines biographical reminiscences of the political participation of working-class militants in the 1905 Revolution. I scrutinize four tropes used by working-class writers to describe their life stories narrated around their political identity. These are: (1) overcoming misery