During the phases of mobile warfare, the ethnically and religiously very heterogeneous population in the border regions of the multi-ethnic empires suffered in particular. Even if the real military situation in the course of the war hardly gave cause for concern, the image of disloyal ethnic and national minorities was widespread. This was particularly the case when ethnic groups lived on both sides of the border and social and political tensions had already established themselves along ethnic or religious lines of conflict before the war. Displacements, deportations and mass violence were the result. The genocide of the Armenian population is the most extreme example of this development.
This anthology examines the border regions of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires during the First World War with regard to radical population policy and genocidal violence from a comparative perspective in order to draw a more precise picture of escalating and deescalating factors.
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»The book itself remains a well-curated and important intervention into a major field of First World War research.« John Paul Newman, on: The Russian Review, Vol. 80, 4/2021
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978-3-428-18146-9 (9783428181469)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Christin Pschichholz is a senior lecturer of history at the Chair of War and Conflict Studies at the Department of History of the University of Potsdam. Her current research project deals with the German reception of ethnic violence during the First World War. Her main research interests are Imperial Germany, First World War studies, genocide studies, and the comparative historiography of mass violence.
Christin Pschichholz: The First World War as a Caesura? Demographic Concepts, Population Policy, and Genocide in the Late Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg Spheres
Ronald Grigor Suny: Imperial Choices: Perceiving Threats and the Descent to Genocide
Mark Levene: Deadly Geopolitics, Ethnic Mobilisations, and the Vulnerability of Peoples, 1914-18
Arno Barth: The Securitization of Minorities as a Bedrock of Population Policy
Hans-Lukas Kieser: Empire Overstretched Nationstate Enforced: The Young Turks Inaugurated the Europe of Extremes
Oktay Özel: The Role of Teskilat-ı Mahsusa (Special Organization) in the Armenian Genocide
Hilmar Kaiser: Zor District During the Initial Months of the Armenian Genocide
Hannes Leidinger: Systematization of Hatred. Dangers of Escalation and Genocidal Violence in Habsburg Warfare, 1914-1918
Heiko Brendel: »Our land is small and it's pressed on all sides. Not one of us can live here peacefully.« Population Policy in Montenegro from the Long Nineteenth Century to the End of the First World War
Serhiy Choliy: War as a Model of Population Movement in the Modern World: The Galician Perspectives in the First World War
Konrad Zielinski: The Jews and the Bolsheviks. The October Revolution and Escalation of Radical Anti-Semitism in the Polish Lands During the World War I and the First Years of Independent Poland
Peter Holquist: The Soviet Policy of De-Cossackizati-on During the Russian Civil War (1919)
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