Confrontation and Conflict

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-84
Author(s):  
Dieter Gosewinkel
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Existential Dimension ◽  
Social Importance ◽  
First World

The First World War revealed an existential dimension of citizenship that remains hidden in peacetime. Hostilities between states intensify the politico-social significance of citizenship and raise awareness of citizens’ duty to put their lives at risk for the good of their home country. The war introduced an epoch in which the political and social importance of citizenship in the everyday lives of Europeans increased greatly, as did, however, its delimiting and exclusionary impact as well. The extreme depletion of the reservoir of—male—conscripts sharpened the dividing line between the sexes and, during large-scale conquests, incited conflicts between ethnic and national loyalties, between ethnicity and nationality, as was seen, for example, in the areas occupied by Germany in France and Russia. The emerging European civil war, which would become a world civil war, had one of its battlefields in the immensely contradictory and conflict-ridden history of citizenship.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 194-202
Author(s):  
Ilaria Scaglia
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Alps ◽  
The One ◽  
First World

This book’s journey through the history of a broad range of political, leisure, educational, and medical institutions in the Alps shows that emotions constituted an essential ingredient in the development of internationalist ideas and practices in the interwar period. After the First World War—a traumatic event that contemporaries blamed on mismanaged passions—internationalists constructed the Alps—a recent battleground and the markers of national borders—as ideal sites for instilling amicable feelings among nations. The staging of large-scale international events such as the 1924 Winter Olympics strengthened the image of mountains as a natural backdrop for peaceful encounters. The commercialization of “typical” convivial products such as cheese fondue and the “cup of friendship” further reinforced this association. At the same time, in an age of increasing industrialization, the Alps attracted both public and private entities interested in large infrastructure projects (including roads, electrical plants, railway lines, and tunnels like the one celebrated in ...

scholarly journals AND AGAIN TO THE ISSUE OF «RED TROUBLES»

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
S. M. Sivkov
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
First World War ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Approach ◽  
First World

The article provides a review of the work of a famous member of the First world and the civil war in Russia, an Expat, a supporter of the ideas of General Kutepov Colonel Zaitcova A. A. “1918: essays on the history of the Russian Civil war"publisher “X-History", 2015. The author reveals the main content of the work and special approach A. A. Sizova closely connected with the events of the Civil war with the First world war, made a conclusion about the nature of war in Russia. Disclosed some biographical data of Colonel A. A. Zaitcova.

Participation of Britain and its role in the elaboration of the London Inter-Allied Conference’s decisions on the “Russian question” (December 11-13, 1919)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-360
Author(s):  
Sergei A. Mironyuk
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Intervention ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
First World ◽  
London Conference

The London Inter-Allied Conference on the "Russian question" (December 11-13, 1919) is rarely mentioned by historians, but a landmark event in the history of British participation in foreign intervention in Russia - and in a broad sense an interesting phenomenon in world history. During the Conference in London participants - Britain, Italy, USA, France and Japan - discussed the future of the intervention and in general a new foreign policy strategy regarding Russia in the context of the evident Bolsheviks’ victory in the Civil War and the formation of a new system of international relations after the First World War, in which it was necessary to determine the position of Russia. The approaches and methods adopted in London, as practice shows, seem to be currently relevant. The purpose of this article is to analyze the participation of Britain and determine its role in the development of decisions of the London Inter-Allied Conference on the "Russian question" on the basis of previously uninvolved documents of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as well as sources of personal origin. The decisions of the London Conference on the "Russian question" put an end to largescale military assistance to the White movement and thus contributed to the end of the Russian Civil War. The British government played a key role in producing the decisions of the London Conference. The Government had prepared thoroughly for the Conference and had proposed its draft decisions.

The Stormy Present

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam I. P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political History ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Civil War Era

In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense of ongoing crisis in these Northern states created anxiety and instability, which manifested in a range of social and political tensions in individual communities. In the face of such realities, Smith argues that a conservative impulse was more than just a historical or nostalgic tendency; it was fundamental to charting a path to the future. At stake for Northerners was their conception of the Union as the vanguard in a global struggle between democracy and despotism, and their ability to navigate their freedoms through the stormy waters of modernity. As a result, the language of conservatism was peculiarly, and revealingly, prominent in Northern politics during these years. The story this book tells is of conservative people coming, in the end, to accept radical change.

scholarly journals The Finnish Battle for Identity: Finnish Socialism, Nationalism and Russian Ideological Intervention in the Finnish Civil War

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Maavara
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
First World War ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
First World

The Finnish Civil War, fought from January to May 1918, was one of the many small scale Eastern European conflicts fought in the ideological and ethnic turmoil that followed the Russian Revolution and the First World War.  The war was fought between socialist Finnish Reds and conservative Finnish Whites. Despite its class conflict characteristics, the Civil War was manufactured by the Whites as a War of Liberation from Russia. The Whites successfully mobilized Finnish nationalism by exploiting the nature and history of Finnish socialism to reveal contradictions in socialist policies and painting the Reds as puppets of Russian communists.

“Wir wollen hoffen, dass es nicht so lange dauert…”

Ladinia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 49-94
Author(s):  
Reinhard Rampold
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First World

While the major events of the First World War were scientifically examined early on, the “everyday stories” associated with the war received little attention for decades. It is only in recent years that this aspect has been recognised as an inte-gral part of history and has also been the subject of academic research in Tyrol and Trentino. Luckily, an extensive collection of field postcards and field letters from Felix, Candidus and Albin Crepaz has been preserved. They were deployed as soldiers on Col di Lana and the Siefsattel in the immediate vicinity of their hometown Lasta, and experienced the impact of the war on their homeland and their relatives at first hand. The preserved documents – even though the letters of reply are missing – give a deep insight into the psychological and physical problems of an ordinary soldier, as well as the concern for his relatives and neighbours, and are thus an important evidence of the everyday history of Tyrol during the First World War.

scholarly journals In Ukraine under Hetman summer — autumn 1918

2021 ◽  
pp. 477-507
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Ganin
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
First World War ◽  
European History ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
East European ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
First World

This article introduces previously unpublished memoirs of General P. S. Makhrov about the events of the Civil war in the Ukraine in 1918. Makhrov’s Memoirs from the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture, Columbia University are an important source for the different events of the late XIX — first half of the XX century. Primarily on the history of the First world war and Civil war in Russia and Ukraine. The memoirist describes in detail the Ukraine under Hetman P. P. Skoropadski and the German occupation. P. S. Makhrov pays special attention to the behavior of officers in independent Ukraine.

scholarly journals Admiral Kolchak in Omsk: on history of Civil War in Russia and geopolitical redistribution of Europe after First World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
S. V. Novikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
First World War ◽  
Military Power ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Commander In Chief ◽  
First World ◽  
Supreme Commander

The article is devoted to the study of the circumstances of coming to power in the anti-Bolshevik Omsk of Admiral A. V. Kolchak. He concentrated in his hands the executive, legislative, judicial and military power becoming the Supreme Ruler of Russia and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. The author comes to the conclusion that the appearance of A.V. Kolchak in Omsk was a consequence of the contradictions between British and French politicians, and the admiral himself, relying on the British, was a victim of a redivision of the world following the First World War

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Duncan Bell
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Racial Categorization ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Utopian Thought ◽  
First World

This introductory chapter explores some of the most ambitious ideas about the unification of Anglo-America, concentrating on the years between 1880 and the First World War. During that tumultuous period, numerous members of the intellectual elite on both sides of the Atlantic — scholars, journalists, novelists, preachers, and politicians — encouraged closer cooperation, even political integration, between the two powers. The chapter analyzes the boldest arguments about Anglo-America, the dreams that motivated and shaped them, and the discourses in which they were embedded, with the intention of illuminating a pivotal moment in both the intellectual history of world order and the development of modern utopian thought. Ultimately, the chapter sketches the political and geopolitical context in which the debates occurred, considers the self-consciously visionary character of many unionist claims as well as the conceptual elusiveness of racial categorization.

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