Vanquished & Victorious: World War I Veterans in Austria & Czechoslovakia, 1918–1938

Einladung zur Buchpräsentation Vanquished & Victorious: World War I Veterans in Austria & Czechoslovakia, 1918–1938

Präsentation: Václav Šmidrkal und Laurence Cole

Diskussion mit Dr. Florian Wenninger, Institut für Historische Sozialforschung (Moderation) und a.o. Univ.-Prof Dr. Christa Hämmerle, Universität Wien

Datum: 5. Mai 2025, 18.30 Uhr
Ort: Botschaft der Tschechischen Republik in Österreich, Penzinger Straße 11-13, 1140 Wien

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Vanquished & Victorious: World War I Veterans in Austria & Czechoslovakia, 1918–1938
by Václav Šmidrkal, Laurence Cole, Hannes Leidinger, Rudolf Kučera, Julia Walleczek-Fritz, and Radka Šustrová

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’.