Beschreibung:
Violence analyses both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes and armed conflicts between ethnic, social and national groups, as well as the interaction between these two phenomena.
Volume introduction 1. The Balkan Wars: patterns of violence in the Balkans leading up to the First World War 2. The war in the East, 1914-16 3. The radicalization of violence and Intermarium's interwar 4. Mass violence and its immediate aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War, 1939-47 5. State socialism: violence, oppression and surveillance 6. The violent dissolution of Yugoslavia, 1989-2001