War in Peace

Pieter M. Judson, Slavonic and East European Review The quality of the individual essays is for the most part high, and a majority of the essays engages productively with each other, particularly those by the editors, and those on Russia, Italy, the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire.

Jay Winter, Yale University essential reading for anyone interested in the way violence at the end of the Great War led into the post-war period with profound and devastating effects. This innovative collection of essays helps shift the centre of gravity of twentieth-century European studies to the east, and does so through illuminating studies of the breakdown of the state's monopoly on violence from Ireland to Turkey and beyond.

Justin Dolan Stover, War in History a volume that not only eases the inherent difficulty in understanding post-war themes of societal disillusionment, and political and ethnic struggle, but is committed to advancing the discourse on the social, cultural, and psychological impact of the Great War.

Christopher Gilley, Europe-Asia Studies this collection is undoubtedly a major contribution to the debate. It brings together an impressive selection of concise yet substantial introductions to complex cases, many of which Western scholars often overlook. Indeed, the book eloquently demonstrates the inadequacy of other histories of Europe that concentrate on West European experiences in that it shows how events in Central and Eastern Europe are integral parts of the continent's past, not aberrations to a Western norm.

The NYMAS Review War in Peace offers a valuable look not only at the 'war after the war' but also on the nature of paramilitary conflict, and the origins of fascism and collaborationism.

Farisa Khalid, PopMatters War in Peace is a thorough, incisive read for any scholar and enthusiast of 20th century European history ... an ideal book for understanding more about the internecine politics that led to both world wars.

Robert Gerwarth was born in Berlin and educated at Oxford where he also held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has been Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of UCD's Centre for War Studies since 2009. He is the author of several monographs and edited books on modern European history, most recently of a biography on Reinhard Heydrich. John Horne was educated in Australia and Britain, and has taught modern European history for many years at Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on French history and on the comparative and transnational history of the Great War. He is a member of the board of the Centre for Research at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne, a founder member of EurohistXX, the research consortium in contemporary European history, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

1. Paramilitarism in Europe after the Great War: An Introduction ; PART I: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION ; 2. Paramilitary Violence in Russia's Civil Wars, 1918-1920 ; 3. Bolshevism as Fantasy: Fear of Revolution and Counter-Revolutionary Violence, 1917-1923 ; 4. Fighting the Red Beast: Counter-Revolutionary Violence in the Defeated States of Central Europe ; 5. Revolution, Civil War, and Terror in Finland in 1918 ; 6. Paramilitary Violence in Italy: The Rationale of Fascism and the Origins of Totalitarianism ; PART II: NATIONS, BORDERLANDS, AND ETHNIC VIOLENCE ; 7. Bands of Nation Builders? Insurgency and Ideology in the Ukrainian Civil War ; 8. Turning Citizens into Soldiers: Baltic Paramilitary Movements after the Great War ; 9. The Origins, Attributes, and Legacies of Paramilitary Violence in the Balkans ; 10. Paramilitary Violence in the Collapsing Ottoman Empire ; 11. Soldiers to Civilians, Civilians to Soldiers: Poland and Ireland after the First World War ; 12. The British Culture of Paramilitary Violence in the Irish War of Independence ; 13. Defending Victory: Paramilitary Politics in France, 1918-1926. A Counter-example