We investigate popular discontent, the state and minority national movements in East-Central Europe between the 1870s and the First World War.
Populations in Focus
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New book by Jakub Beneš on the post-WW1 Green Cadre
The ToC, introduction and index of the book are available on the publisher’s site.
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Political worldviews in Cicir as seen by Róbert Braun
In or shortly before 1913, the early sociologist Róbert Braun conducted fieldwork in the Romanian-inhabited village of Cicir on the side of the river Mureș east of Arad, a place […]
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BeNaSta’s third workshop, Warsaw, 9-10 January 2025
Our third, in-person workshop was generously hosted by the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History in Warsaw, and it included a joint seminar with the institute’s intellectual history research team. On […]
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A Romanian socialist peasant from Transylvania about taxes, bureaucracy and Francis Joseph in 1910
After accepting the recommendation, Teodor Onișor is speaking about the Settlement of 67, about the many and beautiful promises made to the Wallachians [Romanians] at the time, tax cuts, trimming […]
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New book by Jakub Beneš on the post-WW1 Green Cadre
Political worldviews in Cicir as seen by Róbert Braun
BeNaSta’s third workshop, Warsaw, 9-10 January 2025
A Romanian socialist peasant from Transylvania about taxes, bureaucracy and Francis Joseph in 1910