Survey Articles (Regional)

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Bulgaria

By Richard C. Hall

From 1912 to 1918 Bulgaria engaged in a prolonged conflict that began in victory…

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Bereavement and Mourning (South East Europe)

By Olga Manojlovic Pintar

The Great War impacted the lives of almost every family in South East Europe. Un…

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Centenary (Bulgaria)

By Gueorgui Peev

Though 100 years have elapsed since World War I, it has not enjoyed the due atte…

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Civilian and Military Power (South East Europe)

By John Paul Newman

In pre-war South East Europe, both civilian and military powers focused on the c…

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Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (South East Europe)

By Danilo Šarenac

The article examines the main characteristics of commemorative processes which t…

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Occupation during and after the War (South East Europe)

By Milan Ristović

The occupation of South East Europe 1915-1918 had a complex structure reflecting…

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Post-war Economies (South East Europe)

By Ian Innerhofer

The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …

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Post-war Economies (South East Europe)

By Ian Innerhofer

The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …

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Post-war Societies (South East Europe)

By Ian Innerhofer

South East European societies faced several challenges in the post-war period. T…

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Pre-war Military Planning (South East Europe)

By Dmitar Tasić

Nations of South East Europe had just ended a short but very intense period of w…

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Prisoners of War and Internees (South East Europe)

By Bogdan Trifunović

This article analyzes the treatment and living conditions of prisoners of war (P…

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Propaganda at Home and in Exile (South East Europe)

By Samuel Foster

This article explores the nature of propaganda in those South East European stat…

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War Aims and War Aims Discussions (South East Europe)

By Mile Bjelajac

This article offers a survey of the main currents in South East Europe in regard…

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Warfare 1914-1918 (South East Europe)

By Dmitar Tasić

The main intention of this article is to chronologically present major events on…

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Women's Mobilization for War (South East Europe)

By Božica Mladenović

This article presents the role of women in South East Europe during World War I …

Encyclopedic Entries

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Balkan Wars 1912-1913

By Richard C. Hall

The Balkan Wars were two sharp conflicts that heralded the onset of World War I.…

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Ferdinand I, Tsar of Bulgaria

By Stefan Marinov Minkov

Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria undoubtedly contributed to the modernization of the…

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Macedonia and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization

By Tetsuya Sahara

Macedonia was one of the main battlefields on the Balkan Front during World War …

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Petrov, Racho Stoi︠a︡nov

By Stefan Marinov Minkov

Infantry General Racho Petrov is a controversial figure in Bulgarian history. He…

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Radoslavov, Vasil

By Vasil Paraskevov

Dr. Vasil Radoslavov was a Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister from 1913 to …

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Smoking and Cigarette Consumption

By Michael Reeve

During the First World War, governments, civilians and soldiers alike prized smo…

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Zhekov, Nikola

By Deniza Petrova

Nikola Zhekov was a Bulgarian infantry general, the Bulgarian minister of war fr…

See Also

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Alliance System 1914

By Günther Kronenbitter

Alliances were an important feature of the international system on the eve of Wo…

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Antisemitism

By Werner Bergmann, Ulrich Wyrwa

The First World War and its direct repercussions in the postwar period (revoluti…

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Bereavement and Mourning

By Manfred Hettling, Tino Schölz

In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …

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Centenary (Museums)

By Andrea Brait

This article discusses how European museums – in particular, national war museum…

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Nationalism

By John Paul Newman

This article offers an overview of the progress of nationalism and the national …

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Paramilitary Violence

By Annemarie Sammartino

While World War I featured the largest armies ever assembled, it was also fought…

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Prisoners of War

By Heather Jones

The First World War marked the shift from a 19th century, relatively ad hoc mana…

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Refugees

By Peter Gatrell

This article addresses the scale of wartime population displacement in continent…

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Resettlement

By Peter Gatrell

The conduct of warfare in 1914-1918 included extensive population resettlement i…

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Revolutions

By Chad R. Fulwider

This article surveys the various movements toward social, national, and politica…

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The Paris Peace Conference and its Consequences

By Alan Sharp

This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…

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War in the Balkans

By Richard C. Hall

The Balkan Wars erupted in South Eastern Europe in October 1912. Fighting contin…

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Willingly to War. Public Response to the Outbreak of War

By Jean-Jacques Becker

It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…

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