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Book SynopsisMass population displacement affected millions of Europe’s civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914–18. At the end of the war, a senior Red Cross official wrote ‘there were refugees everywhere. It was as if the entire world had to move or was waiting to move’.
Europe on the move: refugees in the era of the Great War, 1912–
23 is the first attempt to understand their experiences as a whole and to establish the political, social and cultural significance and ramifications of the wartime refugee crisis. Drawing on original research by leading specialists from more than a dozen countries, it will become the definitive work on the subject and will appeal to anyone who wishes to understand how governments and public opinion responded to refugees a century ago.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Peter Gatrell
1 Population displacement in East Prussia during the First World War – Ruth Leiserowitz
2 ‘A mass which you could form into whatever you wanted’: refugees and state building in Lithuania and Courland, 1914–21 – Klaus Richter
3 Refugees from Polish territories in Russia during the First World War – Mariusz Korzeniowski
4 ‘Human waves’: refugees in Russia, 1914–18 – Irina Belova
5 Ukrainian assistance to refugees during the First World War – Liubov Zhvanko and Oleksiy Nestulya
6 ‘Cities of barracks’: Refugees in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire during the First World War – Martina Hermann
7 Between refugees and the state: Hungarian Jewry and the wartime Jewish refugee crisis in Austria-Hungary – Rebekah Klein-Pejšová
8 Beyond the borders: displaced persons in the Italian linguistic space during the First World War – Marco Mondini and Francesco Frizzera
9 Belgian refugees during the First World War (France, Britain, Netherlands) – Michaël Amara
10 Citizenship on the move: refugee communities and the state in France, 1914–18 – Alex Dowdall
11 Golgotha: the retreat of the Serbian army and civilians in 1915–16 – Danilo Šarenac
12 The refugee question in Bulgaria before, during and after the First World War – Nikolai Vukov
13 From imperial dreams to the refugee problem: population movements during Greece's ‘decade of war’, 1912–22 – Emilia Salvanou
14 Becoming and unbecoming refugees: the long ordeal of Balkan Muslims, 1912–34 – Ugur Ümit Üngör
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