How Poles Radicalised Belarusians: On the Mechanism of Coercion by Katarzyna Kurza

“… How Poles Radicalised Belarusians: On the Mechanism of Coercion The great reconstruction of Central-Eastern Europe after World War I mainly consisted in building national states in place of multinational empires, but it also involved social transformations. …”
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Lawrence, Douglas Goldring, and Plays for a People’s Theatre by Keith Cushman

“…He was a subeditor under Ford Madox Hueffer at the English Review and later published reminiscences of Ford and the English Review circle. He fought in World War I, but, after being invalided out of the army, he became a conscientious objector and – for a time – a radical socialist. …”
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FROM TEXTILE TO PLASTIC: ARCHITECTURE, EXHIBITION DESIGN, AND ABSTRACTION (1930–1955) by Clemens Ottenhausen

“…To demonstrate how textiles were successfully employed as mediators on the threshold between architecture, design objects, and fine arts, I first examine the increasing use of curtains in the interwar period, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany to subsequently explore how the role of fabrics in both countries’ rationalist and neoclassicist architecture also played a significant part in exhibition design after the Second World War. I chart how the interest in textiles culminated in 1955, when glossy plastic curtains were integrated into the exhibition architecture at the first documenta in Kassel, Germany, one of the country’s most prestigious recurring art events to this day. …”
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Humorn i stadens mångstämmiga rum by Massimo Ciaravolo

“…Bergman’s humour is marked by pessimism, and the writer is ambivalent towards the apparently solid, bourgeois world prior to World War I which he comes from and depicts in his novel. …”
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Chemistry in a new key: Surplus, soy, and the history of sustainable enterprise in the United States, 1934-1950 by La Rock, Zachary

“…In the mid-1930s, a prominent group of industrialists, politicians, and farmers in the United States rallied around chemurgy, an emergent field of applied chemistry that sought to transform post-World War I agricultural surplus into industrial commodities. …”
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Anglo-Italian relations during the First World War by Marcuzzi, S

“…<p>This thesis examines how the newly-born Anglo-Italian alliance operated during World War I, and how it influenced each of Britain’s and Italy’s strategies. …”

Early twentieth century productivity growth dynamics: An inquiry into the economic history of "our ignorance" by David, PA, Wright, G

“…A marked acceleration of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in U.S. manufacturing followed World War I. This development contributed substantially to the absolute and relative rise of the domestic economy&#x2019;s aggregate TFP residual, which is observed when the &#x201C;growth accounts&#x201D; for the first quarter of the twentieth century are compared with those for the second half of the nineteenth century. …”

TRANSFORMATION OF THE JAPANESE MEMORY POLITIC IN THE II HALF OF XX-XXI CENTURIES IN THE CONTEXTS OF PAN-ASIAN AMBITIONS by ОЛЕКСАНДРА БІБІК

“…In the 1950s, when Japan was experiencing a period of economic crisis caused by the defeat of the war, the occupation regime, and the formation of military memory, we see a trend of Japanese intellectuals classifying Japan as "Asia". If during World War I Pan-Asian ideology was used to correct imperial ideology and colonialism, modern Pan-Asian concepts tend to create a union of Southeast Asian countries for support and mutual development. …”
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Academician S.R. Mirotvortsev (1878 - 1949) – the Clinical Physician, the Teacher, the Urologist Innovator (to the 140 anniversary since birth) by T. Sh. Morgoshiia

“…From numerous works on field surgery detailed statistical development of 180 thousand cases of a gunshot wound is especially valuable during World War I of 1914 — 1918. It is noted that the department of faculty surgery of the Saratov medical institute and the street in Saratov is called by the name of S.R. …”
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Activity of US representative Douglass Jenkins in the Ukrainian National Republic (1917-1919) by Tetiana Klynina

“…However, before the outbreak of World War I, the concept of “Ukrainian question” and “Ukraine” was “terra incognita” for Washington, which was primarily explained by the isolationist policies of the American government. …”
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Historical and contemporary strategic engagement in cases of competitive security dynamics by Katz, Daniel H.

“…-German defense diplomacy prior to World War I, U.S.-Soviet defense diplomacy during the Cold War (with emphasis upon the 1972 Incidents at Sea Agreement and the U.S.…”
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Fire, boycott, threat and harm: social and political violence within the local community. A study of three Munster counties during the Irish Civil War, 1922-23. by Clark, G, Gemma Clark

“…The thesis also places the Irish Civil War in perspective: the prolific bloodshed, sexual violence and gruesome torture witnessed in Central Europe, after World War I, did not become the norm in Ireland. Animals and private property bore the brunt of the severest actions in the three Munster counties. …”

Imperial longings and promised lands by Schnitzer, S, Schnitzer, Shira Danielle

“…Ottoman entry into World War I, which prompted both British and Zionist considerations into the merits of a Jewish homeland as part of the imperial system, created an acute conflict for British Jewry's communal leadership. …”

The Academy of Arts and Sciences in Krakow (1872–1918) and its Czech members (in Polish) by Halina LICHOCKA

“…That is why until the end of World War I, the Czech representatives of social sciences were the biggest group among the foreign members of the Academy. …”
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B. N. Shakhovskoy Reports on the Internal Problems of the Antiochian Patriarchate (1909–1910) by Aleksandr G. Grouchevoy

“…This system was introduced; it showed effectiveness and functioned until the outbreak of the World War I.…”
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The Ideological Ambiguity of Touch and Go by Simonetta De Filippis

“…This social conflict, present in the background of the first colliery plays (1912), is brought to the foreground in Touch and Go, written at a later stage (1920), in a much more complex personal and historical period: a more mature and difficult phase for Lawrence – the artist and the man – who in 1919, after World War I was over, chooses to be an exile for the rest of his life; an eventful period for British society, particularly for a decisive awakening of the working class whose struggles call into question and impeach a large part of the capitalist structures within and outside Great Britain (the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and the strengthening of the Fascist movement in Italy). …”
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СЕЛЯНСТВО ТА ФАЛЬШИВОМОНЕТНИЦТВО В РОСІЙСЬКІЙ ТА АВСТРО-УГОРСЬКІЙ ІМПЕРІЯХ У ХІХ-ХХ СТ by А. С. А. С. Бойко-Гагарін

“…Since the beginning of the World War I, the monetary system has changed completely and other types of counterfeiting have also emerged, becoming a new threat for the peasantry…”
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The Meeting (Slet) оf the Czech Sokol Movement in Brno on June 27-28, 1914 by Kotov Viktor

“…This festival held on 27th and 28th of June 1914 was the last major Sokol event before the outbreak of World War I. The slet is examined as yet another episode of the national conflict between Czechs and Germans in the region. …”
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The Contributions of Lewis Fry Richardson to Drainage Theory, Soil Physics, and the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum by Peter A. C. Raats, John H. Knight

“…He did the research for this book under difficult circumstances just before, during, and right after World War I. The book was received positively, but methods like those proposed in it were not successfully implemented until the invention of fast digital computers around 1950. …”
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The Humanitarian Mission by Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Hungary (1914-1921) by Oleksandr Shevchuk, Yuliia Siekunova

“…In spite of insurmountable difficulties during World War I and in the post-War years that followed it; in spite of the lack of unity and of many internal differences; in spite of negative attitudes from various governments – in spite of all these obstacles, American Jewry was able not only to deliver general organized relief to the starving European Jews (including Hungarian Jews), but also to assist in the organization of the machinery for the transmission of private relief. …”
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