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<p>The article discusses parallelisms between the social and political realities of East Central Europe around 1917–1923 and the current state of affairs. It starts with an analysis of the dynamic social relations in the final year of the Great War to follow with the question of their impact on politics and a short outline of the region’s history after 1918. While in terms of political and social reality there is little to invite comparison between these two periods under scrutiny, the language of politics and popular sentiments do. Most importantly, and similarly to East Central Europe in the interwar period, fear of a radical change (be it Bolshevism as in 1917–1923 or the cultural revolution) is the main tool of conservative mobilization which represents the sole actual danger to the existing social and political order.</p>
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The article discusses parallelisms between the social and political realities of East Central Europe around 1917–1923 and the current state of affairs. It starts with an analysis of the dynamic social relations in the final year of the Great War to follow with the question of their impact on politics and a short outline of the region’s history after 1918. While in terms of political and social reality there is little to invite comparison between these two periods under scrutiny, the language of politics and popular sentiments do. Most importantly, and similarly to East Central Europe in the interwar period, fear of a radical change (be it Bolshevism as in 1917–1923 or the cultural revolution) is the main tool of conservative mobilization which represents the sole actual danger to the existing social and political order.

Not All Past is Legacy: Echoes of 1917–1923 in Contemporary East Central Europe

TalTech Journal of European Studies

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The article discusses parallelisms between the social and political realities of East Central Europe around 1917–1923 and the current state of affairs. It...

Not All Past is Legacy: Echoes of 1917–1923 in Contemporary East Central Europe

Published Online: May 26, 2021

Page range: 41 - 54

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2021-0004

Keywords
independence, moral economy, political radicalism, social change, strike

© 2021 Maciej Górny, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Not All Past is Legacy: Echoes of 1917–1923 in Contemporary East Central Europe

Published Online: May 26, 2021

Page range: 41 - 54

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2021-0004

Keywordsindependence, moral economy, political radicalism, social change, strike

© 2021 Maciej Górny, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
independence, moral economy, political radicalism, social change, strike