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Peasant Violence and Antisemitism in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

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Authors:
  1. Irina Marin

    1. Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany

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  • Examines the peasant uprising of 1907 in Romania and its impact on Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia
  • Provides a comparative, transnational analysis of crisis management around a triple frontier
  • Examines sources of social violence in modernizing societies and the channels through which this violence propagates

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. A Peasant Uprising on the Edge of a Triple Frontier

    • Irina Marin
    Pages 1-11

  3. Rumour and Violence: The Making of an Uprising

    • Irina Marin
    Pages 13-44

  4. Jews, Strangers and Foreigners

    • Irina Marin
    Pages 45-76

  5. The Peasant Question

    • Irina Marin
    Pages 77-153

  6. Eyes of the State

    • Irina Marin
    Pages 155-206

  7. Paper Worlds

    • Irina Marin
    Pages 207-252

  8. Diplomacy of the Uprising

    • Irina Marin
    Pages 253-274

  9. Conclusions

    • Irina Marin
    Pages 275-284

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 285-304
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About this book

This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It focuses on the devastating Romanian peasant uprising in 1907 and traces the reverberations of the crisis across the triple frontier, analysing the fears, spectres and knee-jerk reactions it triggered in the borderlands of Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia. The uprising came close on the heels of the 1905-1907 social turmoil in Tsarist Russia, and brought into play the major issues that characterized social and political life in the region at the time: rural poverty, the Jewish Question, state modernization, and social upheavals. The book comparatively explores the causes and mechanisms of violence propagation, the function of rumour in the spread of the uprising, land reforms and their legal underpinnings, the policing capabilities of the borderlands around the triple frontier, as well as newspaper coverage and diplomatic reactions.

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“Irina Marin’s thoroughly researched book is a major contribution to the historiography of the region. Its main strengths reside in its wide-ranging scope, rich and varied source material, inspiring combination of social history … and elements of social psychology, and skillful switching between different scales and spaces in order to place the Romanian case in a broad comparative context. This transnational and entangled study of violence and antisemitism will surely interest readers across the ‘triple frontier,’ and far beyond it.” (Andrei Cusco, Antisemitism Studies, Vol.6 (1), 2022)

“This thoroughly researched book explores the causes of the 1907 peasant uprising, which was the most violent episode ever to occur in Romania during peacetime. … The great strength of the book is that it takes as its point of departure a series of singular events which took place in the spring of 1907 and paints a panoramic view of the Romanian political, economic, social, and legal system at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” (Luminita Gatejel, Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 7 (4), 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany

    Irina Marin

About the author

Irina Marin is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She has taught and researched at University College London, University of Oxford, University of Leicester and the Vienna Institute for Holocaust Studies. She is the author of Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg Rivalries in Eastern Europe (2012).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Peasant Violence and Antisemitism in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

  • Authors: Irina Marin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76069-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76068-1Published: 26 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09395-2Published: 01 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76069-8Published: 11 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 304

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Modern Europe, Social History, Crime and Society, Religion and Society

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