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A “Ukrainian Revolution”? Local Discourses on the Formation of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic The dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy and the formation of the short-lived West Ukrainian People’s Republic in Eastern Galicia in late 1918 were marked by political upheavals … [Read more...] about Elisabeth Haid-Lener / Abstract

National school associations in Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of WW1  The existence of national defense associations in the field of schooling is in particular bound to the Austrian constitution and the school laws of the liberal Cisleithanian era. In 1880 central … [Read more...] about Mikuláš Zvánovec / Abstract

Mikuláš Zvánovec is a research fellow at the Free Univeristy of Berlin and the National Pedagogical Museum in Prague. He recently finished his PhD. (2020) and published several articles on school associations (e.g. Austrian History Yearbook) as well as a monograph „Der nationale … [Read more...] about Mikuláš Zvánovec / Biography

Elisabeth Haid-Lener is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project NEPOSTRANS at the Institute of Political History in Budapest. She studied History and Slavonic Studies in Vienna and was a fellow in the doctoral program “Austrian Galicia and its Multicultural Heritage.” … [Read more...] about Elisabeth Haid-Lener / Biography

Czechoslovak-Hungarian War Interwar Discourse: Between Silence and Heroization The end of WW I brought the collapse of the great Central-European Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy. The resulting process of forming and shaping successor states was less than smooth, resulting at … [Read more...] about Michal Kšiňan and Juraj Babják / Abstract