Periodic Reporting for period 4 - 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)

At the end of WWI several smaller states replaced large imperial constructs in the East of Europe. For a century, this event was seen as a manifestation of a better world, bringing historical justice and freedom for the people – despite all the subsequent ills and horrors...