Beyond Defeat and Victory. Physical Violence and the Reconstitution of East-Central Europe, 1914–1923

0448481 - MÚA 2016 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Kučera, Rudolf - Šmidrkal, Václav
Beyond Defeat and Victory. Physical Violence and the Reconstitution of East-Central Europe, 1914–1923.
[Praha, 17.09.2015-19.09.2015, (K-WRD 25/21)]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA14-14612S
Institutional support: RVO:67985921
Keywords : First World War * violence * East-Central Europe
Subject RIV: AB - History

The conference advanced the current study of violence during and in the aftermath of the First World War. Its title was inspired by the currently discussed concepts of the “culture of victory” and “culture of defeat”, which strive to characterize the situation in the victorious and defeated states during the First World War. It fostered the discussion on the influence of victory and defeat not only on the origin and spread of violent practices, but also on the stabilization and destabilization of the victorious, as well as defeated, interwar states in interwar East-Central Europe. Many debates critically examined the usefulness of the concepts of the cultures of defeat and victory, and the conference thus undoubtedly contributed to the clarification of some of the main issues of European history of the 1910s and 1920s.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0250183