War Veterans in Eastern Europe since 1918

Constantin Iordachi is Professor of History at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria; President of the International Association for Comparative Fascism Studies (ComFas); Editor-in-Chief of CEU Review of Books; Co-Editor-in-Chief of East Central-Europe; and Consultant Editor of Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies.Blasco Sciarrino is a history teacher and researcher, having previously studied at the Central European University, both in Budapest and Vienna. Sciarrino's research interests include veteran politics, fascism, nation-building, cultural policies, the politics of memory, and cultural transfers.

• .- Chapter 1 Introduction: War Veterans in Eastern Europe.- Chapter 2 The Third International of Veterans: A Little-known Facet of Soviet Soft Power Between the Wars.- Chapter 3 Militarization Through Sponsorship: Reviving the Veteran Community in Yeltsin’s Russia, 1990 2000.- Chapter 4 Revolutionary Politics and War in Contemporary Ukraine: The Azov Movement Nexus (2014–2018).- Chapter 5 War Veterans, Politics, and the State in Royal and Socialist Yugoslavias, 1918–1961.- Chapter 6 Women Veterans in Socialist Yugoslavia.- Chapter 7 Remembered and Forgotten: Veterans of the 1990s Wars in Serbia Between Memory Politics and Material Policies.- Chapter 8 In This Country, We Make the Decisions”: Croatian 1990s Veterans Constructing and Preserving the War Narrative.- Chapter 9 Veterans in Bulgaria: Forgotten Scapegoats.- Chapter 10 War Veterans in Modern Romania: State-Building, Ideology, and Welfare Provisions.- Chapter 11 Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: The Prosecution and Trials of the Perpetrators of the White Terror in Hungary, 1919–Present.- Chapter 12 Three Resistances: Czech Legal Ordering of War Heroism in the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 13 No Life Without Hierarchy: Veterans in Twentieth-century Poland.- Chapter 14 Comparative and Transnational Veteran Studies: Towards a New Research Agenda.