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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Second Great War, 1917-1923 -- History of Conflicts -- The Central European Civil War, 1918-1921. -- How the Habsburg Monarchy, Austria and Hungary Were Drawn into the Russian October Revolution Between 1917 and 1919 -- 'The Red Scare' in Yugoslavia: The Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Beginning of the Yugoslav Anti-Communism 1919-1921 -- Internationalism or National Separatism. The Relationship Between Košice Social Democracy and Czechoslovakia 1918-1919 -- Charades at Versailles: Poland and the Ukraine at the Paris Peace Conferences -- History of Ideas -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Woodrow Wilson on the Self-Determination of Nations -- Between Nation and Empire: The Post-Habsburg Adriatic Question and the Fascist Idea of Europe 1919-1922 -- Modernism and War. The Idea of Regeneration in European Art and Architecture after the First World War -- Territorial History -- Cuius Regio Eius Natio. Arguments to Legitimise Territorial Claims Against Austria -- The Options for a Negotiated Peace in the Danube Region: Hungary and Neighbouring Countries after the 1918 Aster Revolution -- The Dynamic of Post-War Political Structures in Multi-Ethnic Regions: Transylvania at the End of 1918 -- New Beginnings in Romanian Political Life after the First World War -- The Vulnerability of a Small Post-Colonial State: Georgia's International Prospects in 1918 -- Economic and Social History -- East-Central Europe after the First World War: Fiscal and Monetary Policies in a Time of Economic Transformation -- Between Social and Economic Crisis, Between Revisionism and Political Radicalisation: Bulgaria after the First World War 1918/19-1923 -- 'Peasants Wait for Them with Hope': The Civil War in Belarus 1918-1922 -- The Years of 1918-1923 as a Transformative Period of Jewish Politics -- Psychological Consequences of War -- Slovak Politics and Society on the Brink of 1918-1919 -- Unprocessed Trauma. Polish Medicine in the Face of Psychiatric Injury in the Era of the Great War -- Women's Fight for Civil, Social and Political Rights in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland -- History of Memory -- The Creation of New Politics of Memory as a Consequence of a State's Rebirth: A Case Study of Poland in the First Postwar Years -- The Non-Overshadowed Experiences of the Great War and Their Manifestations in Lithuania, 1914-1926 -- Did the Great War End? Memory and Memorialization of the First World War in Romania -- Appendices -- Timeline of military and diplomatic events in Europe, 1914-1924 -- Timeline of political events in Central and Eastern Europe, 1917-1923 -- Image Credits -- Contributors -- Index of places -- Index of persons

This volume elaborates on a number of issues that seem particular important for the people in Central and Eastern Europe: the development and working of democracy, the public support for, legitimacy and efficacy of democracy and the free market economy, and of course the stability of the newly established political culture.

Die Autoren setzen sich mit dem Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit in Mittel- und Osteuropa unter regionalen Gesichtspunkten auseinander. Dabei gehen sie sowohl auf die Bedingungen unter kommunistischen Verhältnissen ein, als auch auf die Veränderungen im Transformationsprozeß. (IAB)

'Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe' by Roger East and Jolyon Pontin is reviewed.

Policing in Central and Eastern Europe has changed greatly since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some Central and Eastern European countries are constituent members of the European Union, while others have been trying to harmonize with the EU and international requirements for a more democratic policing and developments in accordance with Western European and international policing standards, especially in regard to issues of legality and legitimacy. Changes in the police training system (basic and advanced), internationalization of policing due to transnationalization of crime and deviance, new.