Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO)
Not a member yet
5517 research outputs found
Sort by
Sebastian Ramisch-Paul: Fremde Peripherie – Peripherie der Unsicherheit? Sicherheitsdiskurse über die tschechoslowakische Provinz Podkarpatská Rus (1918–1938)
Get PDF
Thomas Wünsch: Der weiße Adler. Die Geschichte Polens vom 10. Jahrhundert bis heute.
Get PDFAbstractAbstrac
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945
Get PDF
Baltic History after 24 February 2022 - The Charm of Transnational Peripheries?
No full textAfter the Russian invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke in the Bundestag debate on 27 February 2022 of a “turning point in time” (“Zeitenwende”), referring to the foreign and domestic, economic and socio-political consequences that would be experienced in Europe. The “turning point” also had a particular impact on the various states in East Central and Eastern Europe, especially those that had formerly been part of the Soviet Union. These, but also the other states of the former Eastern Bloc, which are now part of the EU and also partly of NATO, are faced with the necessity of redefining their relationship with each other, with the EU and NATO, but also with the Russian Federation and Belarus. However, this buzzword also concerns Eastern European and East Central European studies. The Russian annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the war in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 already posed numerous challenges to Eastern European studies, not least because expertise on Ukraine was scarce. Historical research on East Central Europe is not unaffected by this Zeitenwende; it faces numerous challenges, such as the—hopefully—temporary inaccessibility of Ukrainian archives and libraries and, above all, the problem of whether these institutions in the Russian Federation will be accessible to non-Russian researchers at all after the war. However, the war will also have a long-term impact on the research agenda of Eastern (Central) European historians in the region. The contributions in the Forum section will therefore reflect a range of perspectives and assessments from the region and also from colleagues elsewhere. The ZfO/JECES editors are aware that these contributions to the discussion can only represent a certain “interme#diate state” and will reflect tendencies of the current turning point in Eastern European research. However, we hope, that they will provide important impulses for further reflection on the self-perception of historians of Eastern (Central) Europe and for the reconfiguration of the historiography of this European region.After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke in the Bundestag debate on 27 February 2022 of a “turning point in time” (“Zeitenwende”), referring to the foreign and domestic, economic and socio-political consequences that would be experienced in Europe. The “turning point” also had a particular impact on the various states in East Central and Eastern Europe, especially those that had formerly been part of the Soviet Union. These, but also the other states of the former Eastern Bloc, which are now part of the EU and also partly of NATO, are faced with the necessity of redefining their relationship with each other, with the EU and NATO, but also with the Russian Federation and Belarus. However, this buzzword also concerns Eastern European and East Central European studies. The Russian annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the war in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 already posed numerous challenges to Eastern European studies, not least because expertise on Ukraine was scarce. Historical research on East Central Europe is not unaffected by this Zeitenwende; it faces numerous challenges, such as the—hopefully—temporary inaccessibility of Ukrainian archives and libraries and, above all, the problem of whether these institutions in the Russian Federation will be accessible to non-Russian researchers at all after the war. However, the war will also have a long-term impact on the research agenda of Eastern (Central) European historians in the region. The contributions in the Forum section will therefore reflect a range of perspectives and assessments from the region and also from colleagues elsewhere. The ZfO/JECES editors are aware that these contributions to the discussion can only represent a certain “interme#diate state” and will reflect tendencies of the current turning point in Eastern European research. However, we hope, that they will provide important impulses for further reflection on the self-perception of historians of Eastern (Central) Europe and for the reconfiguration of the historiography of this European region
Alexandra Kaar: Wirtschaft, Krieg und Seelenheil. Papst Martin V., Kaiser Sigismund und das Handelsverbot gegen die Hussiten in Böhmen
Get PDF.
Justyna Aniceta Turkowska: Der kranke Rand des Reiches. Sozialhygiene und natio-nale Räume in der Provinz Posen um 1900
Get PDF.
Refugees and the “Other Hungary”: The Historiography of the Reception of Refugees in Twentieth-Century Hungary
No full textThis article surveys the historiography on refugees in twentieth-century Hungary (both works written by Hungarian and foreign researchers) to provide a critical overview of “refugeedom” in the Hungarian context. It identifies a need for future works on the topic to deal with conceptual history. The country’s twentieth-century history is divided into four parts for the purposes of studying the history of refugees: World War I and its aftermath until World War II; the escape from Nazism; the period of state socialism; and the period of transition to democracy. Within the Hungarian-language historiography, research on refugees has tended to support a positive national narrative in which Hungary has repeatedly functioned as a shelter for people who had to escape from somewhere due to real or feared persecution. As far as the two World Wars and the interwar period are concerned, historians pay attention to refugees and connect their reception to the grand questions of those periods (the origin of the interwar period’s antisemitism, Hungary’s relationship with the Third Reich). When it comes to the Cold War and the post-socialist era, however, research on refugee history is dominated by sociologists. This article argues that the refugee history of the Cold War period has remained marginal in historical works due to a widespread in-sistence on a link between migration and ethnicity that prevents researchers from giving as much attention to political refugees as to refugees who suffered persecution on account of their ethnicity or nationality.This article surveys the historiography on refugees in twentieth-century Hungary (both works written by Hungarian and foreign researchers) to provide a critical overview of “refugeedom” in the Hungarian context. It identifies a need for future works on the topic to deal with conceptual history. The country’s twentieth-century history is divided into four parts for the purposes of studying the history of refugees: World War I and its aftermath until World War II; the escape from Nazism; the period of state socialism; and the period of transition to democracy. Within the Hungarian-language historiography, research on refugees has tended to support a positive national narrative in which Hungary has repeatedly functioned as a shelter for people who had to escape from somewhere due to real or feared persecution. As far as the two World Wars and the interwar period are concerned, historians pay attention to refugees and connect their reception to the grand questions of those periods (the origin of the interwar period’s antisemitism, Hungary’s relationship with the Third Reich). When it comes to the Cold War and the post-socialist era, however, research on refugee history is dominated by sociologists. This article argues that the refugee history of the Cold War period has remained marginal in historical works due to a widespread in-sistence on a link between migration and ethnicity that prevents researchers from giving as much attention to political refugees as to refugees who suffered persecution on account of their ethnicity or nationality
