Political Crisis in Central Europe in the Interwar Period and Today

Temporality, Semantics, and Logic of Crises in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania

242 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Linking contemporary concerns about democratic fragility with historical analysis, this volume examines the crisis and failure of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe during the interwar period from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions explore political culture, constitutional traditions, religion, violence, and crisis discourse in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. Rather than focusing narrowly on institutional breakdown, the authors emphasize long-term cultural legacies, narratives of crisis, and exclusionary identities that undermined democratic pluralism. Interwar Europe functioned as a laboratory of democracy whose experiences offer critical insights into the challenges facing liberal democracies today.

• Reihe: New German Historical Perspectives
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781836956310
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2026
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Martin Schulze Wessel