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OverviewThe First World War did not end in November 1918. In Russia and Eastern Europe it finished up to a year earlier, and both there and elsewhere in Europe it triggered conflicts that lasted down to 1923. Paramilitary formations were prominent in this continuation of the war. They had some features of formal military organizations, but were used in opposition to the regular military as an instrument of revolution or as an adjunct or substitute for military forces when these were unable by themselves to put down a revolution (whether class or national). Paramilitary violence thus arose in different contexts. It was an important aspect of the violence unleashed by class revolution in Russia. It structured the counter-revolution in central and Eastern Europe, including Finland and Italy, which reacted against a mythic version of Bolshevik class violence in the name of order and authority. It also shaped the struggles over borders and ethnicity in the new states that replaced the multi-national empires of Russia, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey. It was prominent on all sides in the wars for Irish independence. In many cases, paramilitary violence was charged with political significance and acquired a long-lasting symbolism and influence. War in Peace explores the differences and similarities between these various kinds of paramilitary violence within one volume for the first time. It thereby contributes to our understanding of the difficult transitions from war to peace. It also helps to re-situate the Great War in a longer-term context and to explain its enduring impact. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Gerwarth (Professor of Modern History, University College Dublin) , John Horne (Professor of Modern European History, Trinity College Dublin)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.528kg ISBN: 9780199654918ISBN 10: 0199654913 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 27 September 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1: Robert Gerwarth and John Horne: Paramilitarism in Europe after the Great War: An Introduction Part I: Revolution and Counter-Revolution 2: William Rosenberg: Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Syndrome of Violence in Russia's Civil Wars, 1918-1920 3: Robert Gerwarth and John Horne: Bolshevism as Fantasy: Fear of Revolution and Counter-Revolutionary Violence, 1917-23 4: Robert Gerwarth: Fighting the Red Beast: Counterrevolutionary Violence in the Defeated States of Central Europe 5: Marko Tikka and Pertty Haapala: Revolution, Civil War, and Terror in Finland in 1918 6: Emilio Gentile: Paramilitary Violence in Italy: the Rationale of Fascism and the Origins of Totalitarianism Part II: Nations, Borderlands, and Ethnic Violence 7: Serhy Yekelchyk: Bands of Nation Builders? Insurgency and Ideology in the Ukrainian Civil War 8: Tomas Balkelis: Turning Citizens into Soldiers: Baltic Paramilitary Movements after the Great War 9: John Paul Newman: Paramilitary Violence in the Balkans: Origins and Legacies 10: Ugur Ümit Üngör: Paramilitary Violence in the Collapsing Ottoman Empire 11: Julia Eichenberg: Soldiers to Civilians, Civilians to Soldiers: Poland and Ireland after the First World War 12: Anne Dolan: The British Culture of Paramilitary Violence in the Irish War of Independence 13: John Horne: Defending Victory: Paramilitary Politics in France, 1918-26. A Counter-exampleReviewsessential reading for anyone interested in the way violence at the end of the Great War led into the post-war period with profound and devastating effects. This innovative collection of essays helps shift the centre of gravity of twentieth-century European studies to the east, and does so through illuminating studies of the breakdown of the state's monopoly on violence from Ireland to Turkey and beyond. Jay Winter, Yale University Author InformationRobert Gerwarth was born in Berlin and educated at Oxford where he also held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has been Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of UCD's Centre for War Studies since 2009. He is the author of several monographs and edited books on modern European history, most recently of a biography on Reinhard Heydrich. John Horne was educated in Australia and Britain, and has taught modern European history for many years at Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on French history and on the comparative and transnational history of the Great War. He is a member of the board of the Centre for Research at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, a founder member of EurohistXX, the research consortium in contemporary European history, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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