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Continuity, Legitimacy, and Authority at the Local Level: The “New” State in Prague   This paper will investigate the nature of state-society relations in the 1918 transition from the Habsburg Empire to the Czechoslovak Republic in Prague. The war sacrifices and the creation of a … [Read more...] about Abstracts Claire Morelon

State, society, and borders: What did the new borders of and within Maramures mean for local societies?   In 1919 the territory of the formerly Hungarian Máramaros County was divided by a demarcation line between the districts occupied by the Romanian and Czechoslovakian … [Read more...] about Abstracts Izsák Anikó-Borbála

Law and Order” or “Revolution”? Local Councils as an Instrument of the Post-1918 Transition in Upper Silesia, Cieszyn and the Orava County.   The paper focuses on the immediate post-war period from October 1918 until spring 1919 and the emergence of hundreds of councils as … [Read more...] about Abstracts Sebastian Paul

‚A Serious Lack of Discipline' - Robberies and Abuse of Authority at the Polish-Romanian Border   In contrast to the relations with the other neighboring states dominated by border conflicts, relations between Poland and Romania were quite harmonious in the aftermath of the First … [Read more...] about Abstracts Elisabeth Haid

Statelessness? International politics and local life in a German-Czech-Polish borderland in Upper Silesia 1918-1922   Two ethnically mixed regions: Cieszyn/Teschen/Tĕšín Silesia and Prussian Upper Silesia (Regierungsbezirk Oppeln), in 1918 became one of many contested regions … [Read more...] about Abstracts Marcin Jarzabek