Attila Simon, Fórum Minority Research Institute in Šamorín (Somorja in Hungarian), Selye János University in Komárno (Komárom in Hungarian)  In the last year of World War I, there were several conflicting national scenarios for the transformation of the Central European region. In the space where eventually the Czecho-Slovak state was to be established, there were […]

Jernej Kosi, University of Ljubljana  In July 1919, the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference received permission to occupy segments of two western counties of the Kingdom of Hungary: Vas/Železna and Zala. In early August 1919, Yugoslav forces therefore crossed the state border and acquired control over the Hungarian region, in accordance with the

Ségolène Plyer, Université de Strasbourg Introduction The passage of supranational empires to national democracies at the end of the First World War has recently been the subject of a plethora of publications. Even if these historiographies are still in the making, one can safely assert that they stress the importance of contexts, actors and representations

Ivan Jeličić, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University Rijeka  This article was written partially under the auspices of the project NEPOSTRANS, “Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation. A comparative study of local and regional transitions in post-Habsburg East and Central Europe,” financed by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant agreement no.

Gábor Egry, Institute of Political History, Budapest This article discusses how Hungarian capitalists preserved their property and sometimes gained key positions on the market in post-WWI Romania with the help of obligations established with Romanian businessmen, despite the state’s efforts toRomanianize these companies. I am going to argue that these obligations were complemented with a

Herausgegeben von / edited by Enikő Dácz Introduction The present issue of the journal can be thematically traced back to the conference Paths of Transition/ Transformation. Local Societies in Southeastern Europe in Transition from Empires to Nation States after WWI, which was organized at the initiative of Dr. Gábor Egry on the 23rd and 24th

Die Halbjahresschrift geht in ihren 35. Jahrgang. Gegründet 1989, als der Eiserne Vorhang fiel, hat sie sich von Beginn an der historischen Aufarbeitung für Südost- und Ostmitteleuropa verschrieben. Es handelt sich um Räume und Gesellschaften, in denen die sich überlagernden Auswirkungen sowohl rechter als auch linker Ideologien sichtbar wurden. Die vielen Jahrzehnte der Autoritarismen, partikulare