The Last Peasant War Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe (PDF)

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Jakub S. Beneš, "The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe"
English | ISBN: 0691212538 | 2025 | 400 pages | PDF | 16 MB
A history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War I-and how it changed the course of interwar politics and World War II

As the First World War ended, villages across central and eastern Europe rose in revolt. Led in many places by a shadowy movement of army deserters, peasants attacked those whom they blamed for wartime abuses and long years of exploitation-large estate owners, officials, and merchants, who were often Jewish. At the same time, peasants tried to realize their rural visions of a reborn society, establishing local self-government or attempting to influence the new states that were being built atop the wreckage of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. In
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