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Journal Article
The Central European Counter-Revolution: Paramilitary Violence in Germany, Austria and Hungary after the Great War
2008
Overview
Gerwarth offers a new perspective on paramilitary violence that differs from previous investigations in two ways. He conceptualizes post-war Central Europe as a transnational theater of paramilitary ultra-violence in which a new type of warrior, born out of Central Europe's 'culture of defeat' and unrestrained by conventional military discipline and moral reservations, staged bloody rituals of retribution against real and imagined enemies. He engages closely with the cultural, social and psychological preconditions and group dynamics that shaped the activists' response to defeat and revolution. He also investigates the social origins and composition of ultra-violent paramilitary movements in Central Europe, it therefore places particular emphasis on the human agency of individuals.
