Intellectuals and World War I (Fall 2024)
Section outline
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Instructor: Karl Hall
Number of credits: 4
Course level: Masters
Time: Mondays at 15:40 and Thursdays at 13:30
Location: TBA
Instructor's office hours: Monday 13:30-15:30; Wednesday 14:00-15:00; Thursday 11:30-12:30; and by appointment
Zoom option: If you require Zoom access for health reasons, etc., use this link. Please alert the instructor beforehand if you will not attend in person; online access is not automatic.
On the eve of the First World War the educated classes of the Habsburg and Romanov Empires remained a tiny elite, even if the universities had begun to facilitate upward social mobility, and more functions for the "intellectual" were gradually taking form. This course explores themes connecting intellectuals and the formative experiences of the wider European war. The "mobilization of intellect" involved more than literary figures offering patriotic rationales for victory. We seek to understand how the war accelerated prior trends or initiated new ones in various cultural domains, and what legacies the war had for intellectual life after Trianon and Brest-Litovsk.In this course we will spend most of our time on the "home front." It is true that many intellectuals became cannon fodder at the front, and on occasion this would later feed into growing popular cynicism about how the war was being prosecuted. But intellectuals qua soldiers are marginal to our enterprise here, while at the same time we need to understand that their domestic roles extended beyond sustaining (or, more rarely, criticizing) ruling and/or popular views of the war. The war haltingly facilitated new forms of expertise, even if it did not yield a total mobilization in this respect. But insofar as the war contributed to our understanding of the role of the intellectual in modern society, we shall cast our nets widely.
A few caveats: political, diplomatic, and military history are marginal to this course. And even insofar as our focus is on culture, I take it as crucial to the objectives of this course that we study more than "high culture" and the avant-garde. Our focus will be on Central and Eastern Europe, and reference to the British and French experiences will largely be limited to any historiographical lessons we might take from the vast literature on the Western Front. The German (not to say Austrian) case will loom somewhat larger for pragmatic reasons, if only because a larger secondary literature in English can provide us with points of entry for topics still inadequately represented in English for the regional languages that concern us. Where possible we will make use of Russian, Czech, Polish, Austrian, Hungarian, and Ukrainian readings as crucial to the scope of the course.Caption: In the laboratory of war
Evil spirit: “Dear colleague, perhaps it’s time to start a new edition of the war from the year 1914?”
Mucha (Warsaw, 1929)
Requirements and assessment: 12-15-page (double-spaced) research paper (40%); annotated bibliography (10%); class presentation (20%); discussion leader (10%); class participation (20%)
Annotated bibliography due November 25
Research paper due December 20
Learning outcomes: Students will gain a working acquaintance with the role of a variety of forms of expertise in the depiction and prosecution of the first world war, with special emphasis on intellectuals from Central and Eastern Europe. Our aim is to introduce students already familiar with the main outlines of the immensely rich historiography of the Great War to fresh avenues of approach that can contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the intellectual legacies of this conflict.
Class Attendance: Regular attendance is mandatory in all classes. Please consult student handbook for the applicable rules and penalties.
With an appropriate research paper topic this course counts toward the Advanced Certificate in Central European Studies.
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Assigned reading:
Karl Mannheim, "The problem of generations," in Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge (1952 [1927]), 276-320.
Additional resources:
Stephen Lovell, “Introduction,” in Generations in Twentieth-century Europe (2007): 1-18.
Stephen Lovell, "From genealogy to generation: The birth of cohort thinking in Russia," Kritika 9 (2008): 567-594.
Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914 (1979).
Please make an effort to complete the reading in time for the first class meeting!
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Assigned reading:
Jan Wacław Machajski (A. Vol'skii), excerpts from The Intellectual Worker (1904–1905), in The Making of Society: An Outline of Sociology, ed. V. F. Calverton (1937), 427–436.Max Weber, "Science [scholarship] as a vocation" (1918), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, eds. Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York, 1948 [1998]), 129–156.
Image: Max Weber in 1917 (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
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Assigned reading:
David Stevenson, "War by Timetable? The Railway Race before 1914," Past and Present 162 (1999): 163-194.Peter Galison, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps (2004), 84-107, 155-161.
Additional resources:
Stephen Kern, “Temporality of the July Crisis,” The Culture of Time and Space 1880–1918 (1983), 259–312. [303.4/83 KER]
Anthony Heywood, "Spark of Revolution? Railway Disorganisation, Freight Traffic and Tsarist Russia's War Effort, July 1914–March 1917," Europe-Asia Studies 65 (2013): 753-772.
Keir A. Lieber, War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (2005).
Daniel Pick, War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age (1993).
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Assigned reading:
A. Koptiaev, "At the futurists' 'opera'" (1913), from Bartlett and Dadswell, Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera (2012).A. Kruchenykh, "Declaration of the word as such" (1913).
V. Mayakovsky, "A drop of tar" (1915), both in Words in Revolution: Russian Futurist Manifestoes (2004).
Roman Jakobson, "Futurism" (1919), in Language in Literature, K. Pomorska and S. Rudy, eds. (1987), 28–33.
Lev Ornstein, "Suicide in an Airplane"
Marjorie Perloff, "The Great War and the European avant-garde," Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (2006).
Image: Bohumil Kubišta, "Heavy artillery in action" (1913)
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Assigned reading:
Readings taken from Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930, eds. Timothy O. Benson and Éva Forgács (2002):
Lajos Kassák, "Program" (1916) [Original Hungarian text in A Tett.]
Vlastislav Hofman, "The spirit of change in visual art" (1914)
Béla Balázs, "The futurists" (1912) [Original Hungarian text in Nyugat.]
Bruno Jasieński, "To the Polish nation: A manifesto concerning the immediate futurization of life" (1921) [Original Polish text.]S. A. Mansbach, "Methodology and meaning in the modern art of Eastern Europe," in T. O. Benson, ed., Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930 (2002), 289-303. [NB: Mansbach barely mentions the war, but his revisionist critique should provide some structure to our discussion of the primary sources. Be prepared in class to speculate more than Mansbach does about the relation of the war to the historical location of the art historical modes of explanation he describes.]
Image: Some modernist typography of "The Great War"; click to see original Russian document
An early Hofman furniture set:
[Source]
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Assigned reading:
"To the civilized world. An appeal" (1914) [Original German text.]“Go ye and teach…” Budapesti Hírlap no. 248 (7 October 1914) [Original Hungarian text via Arcanum.]
S. Kotliarevskii, “War,” Journal of Philosophy and Psychology [Moscow] no.124 (September-October 1914), I-VII. [Original Russian text.]
Aleksej M. Rutkevic, "The ideas of 1914," Stud. East Eur. Thought (2014). [on-campus access only]
Additional resources:
Ernst Troeltsch, “On standards for assessing historical matters," Historische Zeitschrift 116 (1916): 1-47 (brief excerpts) [Original German text.]
Walther Schücking, Die deutschen Professoren und der Weltkrieg (1915).
Rudolf Kjellén, Die Ideen von 1914: Eine weltgeschichtliche Perspektive (1915).
Hermann Kellermann, Der Krieg der Geister (1915).
Hans Wehberg, Wider den Aufruf der 93! Das Ergebnis einer Rundfrage an die 93 Intellektuellen über die Kriegsschuld (1920). [available via North American VPN]
Anne Rasmussen, "Mobilizing minds," The Cambridge History of the First World War, vol. 3 (2013). [on-campus access only]
Tomasz Pudlocki and Kamil Ruszala, eds., Intellectuals and World War I: A Central European Perspective (2018). [940.3/1 PUD]
[click on image to enlarge] Caption: The War Poet
“Alright, we would at last appear to have the rhyme scheme for the first verse: …
[martial rhyming pairs]
Now it is just the rest of the connecting text that is lacking.”
Die Muskete [Vienna] (17 December 1914)
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Assigned reading:
Aladár Schöpflin, "The war of words," Nyugat no. 20 (October 1914) [Original Hungarian text]Mikhail Rostovtsev, "International scientific communication," Russkaia mysl' bk. 3 (1916): 74-81.
Karl Kraus, "The technoromantic adventure" (1918) [Original German text]
Image: "Now we do it simply and cleanly: press a button, trigger a mine – and thousands of children and adults are gone."
Novyi Satirikon (1915)
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Assigned reading:
Max Scheler, “Table of categories of English thought,” from Der Genius des Krieges und der Deutsche Krieg [The Genius of War and the German War] (1915), 442-443.Wilhelm Jerusalem, The War in Light of Social Theory (1915), 1-20. [original German text here]
Vladimir Ern, "From Kant to Krupp" (1914). [original Russian text here]
Additional resources:
Christopher Stroop, "Nationalist War Commentary as Russian Religious Thought: The Religious Intelligentsia's Politics of Providentialism," Russian Review 72 (2013): 94-115. [on campus only]
Daniel R. Huebner, "Wilhelm Jerusalem's sociology of knowledge in the dialogue of ideas," Journal of Classical Sociology 13 (2013): 430-459. [on campus only]
Randall A. Poole, "Religion, War, and Revolution: E. N. Trubetskoi's Liberal Construction of Russian National Identity, 1912–20," Kritika 7 (2006): 195-. [on campus access]
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Please choose one text and prepare to present it in class. (We will agree on the distribution beforehand.)
Czech: Edvard Beneš, "Válka a kultura," Lumír (23 April, 28 May 1915).
Frant. Krejčí, "Právo eksistence malého národa," Česká mysl no. 3 (1915): 225-240.
Hungarian: Kornis Gyula, "A háborús filozófia," Athenaeum 2 (1916): 97-140.
Polish: Solomon Besser, Wojna evropejska jak walka ducha (1915).
Russian: Sergei Bulgakov, "Война и русское самосознание" (1915).
Semen Frank, "Мобилизация мысли в Германии," Русская мысль no. 9 (1916): 20-27.
Ukrainian: Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyi, "[The problem of national philosophy]," Філософія на Україні: спроба історіографії (1926), 9-14. [Not contemporary, but clearly written with the wartime experience in mind.]
German: Magnus Hirschfeld, Warum hassen uns die Völker? (1915).
French: Émile Durkheim, L'Allemagne au dessus de tout : la mentalité allemande et la guerre (1915). [English translation]
English [French]: Émile Boutroux, Philosophy and War (1916).
English: J. H. Muirhead, German Philosophy in Relation to the War (1915).
English: Leon J. Cole, "Biological philosophy and the war," The Scientific Monthly 8 (1919): 247-257.
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Optional background reading: Alison Frank Johnson, "Blood of the earth: The crisis of war," Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), 173-204. [This is not treating a contemporary intellectual debate as such, and will not directly inform our discussion, so you may read "efficiently." But it is an excellent account of the wartime economic context, and in general a book you should note.]Assigned reading:
Walther Rathenau, "The organization of raw materials supply" (1915) [German original]
V. I. Vernadskii, "War and the progress of science" (1915). [Russian original]
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Assigned reading:
Prof. Iar. Przheborovskii [Przeborowski], “Achievements of chemistry during the world war,” Krasnaia nov’ no. (1922): 301-309. [Original Russian text]Jeffrey Johnson, "Military strength and science come together: The Kaiser's chemists at war," from The Kaiser's Chemists: Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany (1990), 180-199.
Suggested reading:
Ilosvay Lajos, "Az ellenséges nagy államok természettudományos mozgalmai a chemiai ipar fejlesztése érdekében," Természettudományi Közlöny no. 693-694 (1918): 145-167.
Fritz Haber, Fünf Vorträge aus den Jahren 1920 - 1923 (1925).
L. F. Haber, The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War (1986).
Alexei Kojevnikov, "The Great War and the invention of Soviet science," Stalin's Great Science (2004), ch. 1.
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Assigned reading:
Maureen Healy, "Food and the politics of sacrifice," Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (2004): 31-72. Further reading:
Hedwig Heyl, Kleines Kriegskochbuch (1914).
Alfred Maylander, "Food situation in Central Europe, 1917" Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics no. 242 (1918).
Belinda J. Davis, Homes Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (2000).
Claire Morelon, "Black markets, green expeditions: Food shortages and growing divisions," in Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914-1920 (2024).
Iaroslav Golubinov, "Food and nutrition (Russian Empire)," International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
Ernst Langthaler, "Food and nutrition (Austria-Hungary)," International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
Image: "The dance around the golden calf" [click to enlarge]
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No classes this week.
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Choose ONE primary source to present in class:
Jaroslav Kříženecký, "O smrti hladem a porušování organismu nedostatečnou výživou," Lidove rozpravy lékařské 144 (1918): 3-36.
Julius Stoklasa, "Výživa obyvatelstva ve válce!" Ročnik agrární revue 2 (1916).
Ereky Károly, "Technikai tudományok a közélelmezés szolgálatában," and "Biotechnológia," MMEEK 52 (1918): 137-138, 337-339.
J. Mańkowski, Dwa systemy: szkic z dziedziny aprowizacji Królestwa Polskiego (1917).
Ludwig Nordeck zur Rabenau, Die Kriegsernährungswirtschaft in Österreich (1918).
H. Kuttenkeuler, "Nahrungsmittelchemie und Nahrungsmittelkontrolle im Kriege," Die Naturwissenschaften 28 (1917): 469-473.
M. Kudrits'kyi, "review of Гр. Коваленко, Анатомія і фізіологія людини в популярнім огляді," Книгар no. 19 (1919): 24-26. [Yes, it's slightly off topic, but try to make the connection.] [This site does not favor permanent links, so you will have to use the citation starting from the home page of libraria.ua.]
N. Orlov, Prodovol'stvennaia rabota Sovetskoi vlasti. K godovshchine oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii (1918). Concentrate on "Nasledstvo" (3-18) and "Khoziaistvennyi razval i proletarskaia diktatura," (40-55).
M. P. Fedorov, Prodovol'stvie Petrograda za vremia voiny (1915).
N. D. Kondratiev, Рынок хлебов и его регулирование во время войны и революции (1922).
Harvey W. Wiley, "Food and efficiency," Records of the Columbia Historical Society 20 (1917): 1-18.
Ernest B. Roberts, "What is food control?" (1918).
Ernest H. Starling, "The food supply of Germany during the war," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 83 (1920): 225-245.
Herbert Hoover, "Food in war" [1918].
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Assigned reading:
Roger Cooter and Steve Sturdy, "Of war, medicine and modernity: Introduction," in War, Medicine and Modernity (1998), 1-22.Choose ONE text to present in class:
Emil Grósz, "Az orvosi tudomány a háborúban," Budapesti szemle 161 (1915): 75-83. [on-campus access only]
David John Davis, "Bacteriology and the war," The Scientific Monthly 5 (1917): 385-399.
Bailey K. Ashford, "The application of sanitary science to the Great War in the zone of the Army," Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 58 (1919): 317-336.
Tivadar Saile [Szél], "A bejelentésre kötelezett fertőző betegségek nemzetközi összehasonlítása. (1919-23)," Statisztikai szemle no. 1-4 (1925): 16-32.
Karl Kassowitz, "Der österreichisch-ungarisch Truppenarzt an der Front," in Clemens Pirquet, ed., Volksgesundheit im Krieg (1926), 133-142.Jan Piltz, "Zaburzenie nerwowe i psychiczne, spostrzegane podczas mobilizacji i w chasie wojny," Przegląd lekarski no. 3 (1915): 40-44.
V. M. Bekhterev, "Voina i psikhozy," Voprosy mirovoi voiny (1915), 590-604.
Further reading:
John F. Hutchinson, Politics and Public Health in Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918 (1990), 108-143.
Image: X-ray field station
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Assigned reading:
Isaac Babel, "My first goose," from Red Cavalry Stories.S. Ferenczi, "Two types of war neuroses" (1916), from Selected Writings.
From the special issue of Journal of Contemporary History devoted to "shell shock":
a: Merridale :
b: Leed :
c: Mosse :
d: Lerner :
Further reading:
Buday Dezső, "A haború hatása a szellemi munkára," Természettudományi Közlöny (1917), 635-639.
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Assigned reading:
W. Trotter, "Prejudice in time of war," from Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1919), 214-224.Sigmund Freud, "The herd instinct," Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1919), 117-121. [original text available here]
Questionnaire from War and the Kostroma countryside (according to data of the Statistical Department’s questionnaire) (1915), 140–142.
Peter Holquist, "'Information is the alpha and omega of our work': Bolshevik surveillance in its pan-European context," J. Mod. Hist. 69 (1997): 415-450.
Further reading:
István Dékány, "Tételek és paradoxonok a közvélemény problémájához," Társadalomtudomány 1 (1921): 242-247.
Ludwig Krašković, Die Psychologie der Kollektivitäten (1915).
Stefan Jonsson, "The revolving nature of the social: Primal hordes and crowds without qualities," Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism (2013), 119-141.
David Hoffmann, "Surveillance and propaganda," in Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914-1939 (2011).
Ferdinand Tönnies, Kritik der öffentlichen Meinung (1922).
Image: "Brusilov's main weapon" (victory ink)
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The war in the air hydrodynamic fluids
We might schedule this session as a (Friday or Saturday) visit to the Museum of Technology
Assigned reading:
Scott W. Palmer, Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (2006), §§104-133.Theodor von Kármán, “War, technology, science,” Pester Lloyd (18 October 1914): 2-3. [original German text] [Hungarian alternative] [see this simulation of the von Kármán vortex street]
David Bloor, The Enigma of the Aerofoil: Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930 (2011), 1-8, 410-412.
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Assigned reading:
Albert Fonó, "The proletarian dictatorship and the engineers," Magyar Mérnök- és Épitész-Egylet Közlönye 53 no. 13 (1919): 97. [original Hungarian here]Jeffrey Herf, "Engineers as ideologues," Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (1984), 152-188. [on campus access only]
Harley Balzer, "Soviet engineers: The rise and decline of a social myth," in Loren R. Graham, ed., Science and the Soviet Social Order (1990), 141-167. [NB: it's only the first ten pages that immediately concern us, so you can skip lightly over the remainder, but do take note of the conclusion.]
Further reading:
Evgenii Paton, "Stormy days," Vospominaniia (1958).
Kendall E. Bailes, “The politics of technology: Stalin and technocratic thinking among Soviet engineers,” American Historical Review 79 (1974): 445–469.
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Assigned reading:
Wichard von Moellendorff, "Efficiency," Zeitschrift des Vereines Deutscher Ingenieure 64 no. 42 (1920): 853-856.S. Raetskii, "Managing the managers," Trudy Pervoi Vserossiiskoi initsiativnoi konferentsii po nauchnoi organizatsii truda i proizvodstva (1921).
Choose ONE primary source to discuss in class:
"A mérnöki rendtartás," Belügyi Közlöny 28 (1923): 599-621.
V. I. Grinevetskii, Poslevoennye perspektivy russkoi promyshlennosti, ch. 6 (1919).
N. I. Bukharin, Ekonomika perekhodnogo perioda, ch. 6 (1920). (Most of this chapter available in English here.)
Stanislav Špaček, "O osmihodinné době pracovní," Obzor národohospodářský XXIV. (1919), 27-31, 65-70.
Vladimir List, "Technik a krise," Národní listy (8-9 January 1932). Part 1 and Part 2. [These links are to Kramerius, but you might find it easier to work with the file of images below.]
M. Rybczyński, "Zarys organizacyi władz technicznych w Państwie Polskiem," Czasopismo techniczne 36 no. 8 (1918), 61-63. [Time permitting, look at the article after this one as well...]
Friedrich Hertz, "Die wirtschaftliche Ausbildung der Techniker und die Aufgaben nach dem Kriege," Elektrotechnik und Maschinenbau (9 June 1918): 93-94.
Thorsten Veblen, The Engineers and the Price System, ch. 4 (1921).
Optional background reading: Mark Beissinger, Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power (1988), 19-40.
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Due: Saturday, 7 December 2024, 1:59 AM
In anticipation of your research paper please prepare an annotated bibliography of ten sources; at least two must be primary sources. For present purposes "annotated" means one sentence explaining the potential relevance of the source to your anticipated argument in the paper.
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Assigned reading:
Oswald Spengler, "Introduction," The Decline of the West (1918) (abridged)
Choose ONE response reading according to language preference. (NB: Bazarov is the default English-language option.)
V. Bazarov, “O. Spengler and his critics,” Krasnaia nov’ no. 2 (1922), 211-231. (Original Russian text here.)Hornyánszky Gyula, review of Spengler, Társadalomtudomány 1 (1921): 230-241.
Pauler Ákos, "Uj kultúrfilozófia," Athenaeum 6 (1920): 82-87. [or PDF below]
Florian Znaniecki, Upadek cywilizacji zachodniej. Szkic z pogranicza filozofji kultury i socjologji (1921).
A. Leitis, "Реакційна література на Заході," Всесвіт no. 15 (1925): 14-15. [at libraria.ua]
A. Vul'fius, "Osval'd Shpengler kak istorik," Annaly: Zhurnal vseobshchei istorii 2 (1922), 17-30.
Jos. Šusta, review of Spengler, Český Časopis Historický 27 (1921): 175-197.
Wilhelm Bauer, "Der zweite Band Spengler," Neues Wiener Tagblatt (31 July 1922), 3-4.
Ernst Troeltsch, review of Spengler, Historische Zeitschrift 120 (1919): 281-291.
Otto Stoeffl, "Weltgeschichte als Urphänomen," Pester Lloyd (28 December 1918), 2-3.
Otto Neurath, "Anti-Spengler," in Empiricism and Sociology (1973 [1921], 158-213.
Paul Riebesell, "Die Mathematik und die Naturwissenschaften in Spenglers 'Untergang des Abendlandes'," Die Naturwissenschaften 26 (1920): 507-509.
P. Preobrazhenskii, "Освальд Шпенглер и крушение истины," Печать и революция no. 1 (1922), 58-65.
Image: Vladimir Mayakovsky: "All Spenglers are just Stinnes brains" [click to enlarge]
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Assigned reading:
Alfred Weber, "The predicament of intellectual workers"
Rudolf Kayser, "Americanism"
Stefan Zweig, "The monotonization of the world"
(All from The Weimar Republic Sourcebook)
[Karel Čapek], "We alarm and amuse M. Capek," The New York Times (May 16, 1926)
Ignotus [Hugó Veigelsberg], “America and culture,” Nyugat no. 13 (1927) [Hungarian source]
Polish option: Roman Dyboski, "Ameryka a Europa," Przegląd Polityczny T. 11, z. 6 (1929): 177-189.
Ukrainian option: V. Iurynets, "Notatky mandrivnyka," Krytyka no. 7 (1928): 18-. (go to relevant passage on page 30) libraria.ua
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Assigned reading:
"Geography at the Congress of Paris, 1919," The Geographical Journal 55 (1920): 309-312.
Maciej Górny, "Space (geography)," in Science Embattled: Eastern European Intellectuals and the Great War (2019), 119-162.
Suggested reading:
Eugeniusz Romer, Geograficzno-statystyczny atlas Polski = Geographisch-statistischer Atlas von Polen = Atlas de la Pologne (Geographie et Statistique) (1916).
Stepan Rudnytskyi, "Ethnographic boundaries of Ukraine," in Ukraine: The Land and its People: An Introduction to its Geography (1918): 118-147.
Stepan Rudnytskyi, "[Outline of the geography of Ukraine]," in Украинский народ в ее прошлом и настоящем, vol. 2 (1916): 361-380.
Rudnytskyi, "Завдання географичної науки на українських землях," Червоний шлях no. 3 (1927): 102-112. [at libraria.ua]
Anton Kotenko, The Ukrainian Project in Search of National Space, 1861-1914, PhD dissertation, CEU (2014).
Steven Seegel, Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (2012). [912.0947 SEE]
Steven Seegel, Ukraine under Western Eyes: The Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection (2011). [912.0947 SEE]
Guntram Henrik Herb, Under the Map of Germany: Nationalism and Propaganda 1918-1945 (1997).
Jason D. Hansen, Mapping the Germans: Statistical Science, Cartography, and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914 (2015). [912.0943 HAN]
David Gugerli and Daniel Speich, Topografien der Nation: Politik, kartografische Ordnung und Landschaft im 19. Jahrhundert (2002). [912.09494 GUG]
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Assigned reading:
Otto Neurath, "Through war economy to economy in kind" (1919), from Empiricism and Sociology.Ludwig von Mises, "War and the economy," from Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of our Time.
Hungarian alternative: Bud János, review of Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Közgazdasági szemle (1920): 118-123.
Further reading:
"John Maynard Keynes," Pester Lloyd, 30 March 1920.
N. Liubimov, Мировая война и ее влияние на государственное хозяйство Запада: критич. изложение работы Кейнса "Экономические последствия мира" (1921).
"Károlyi denunciál," Budapesti Hírlap, 3 October 1922.
"Károly Mihály cikke Keynes lapjában," Bécsi Magyar Ujság, 4 October 1922.
Jan Dmochowski, Nowe teorje monetarne (1927).
Patrick O. Cohrs, "No prospects for a lasting peace?" in The New Atlantic Order (2022), 299-348.
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[NB: likely not the preference of the class, dropped in favor of the economic theme]
Assigned reading:
Kazimierz Ossowski, “Comments on the draft project of the Polish patent law,” Przegląd techniczny 56 no. 1-4 (1918): 3-12. (excerpts)
"Decree of the Soviet of People's Commissars. 341. On inventions" (1919)
Zoltán Schilling, "The new code of the patent law," Herald of the Hungarian Engineers and Architects Association (MMEEK) 54 no. 44-45 (1920): 174-175.
F. Ruffini, "Report on scientific property," Committee on Intellectual Co-operation, League of Nations (1923). (excerpts)
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Assigned reading:
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), excerpt.Aladár Komlós, “Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front,” Nyugat no. 10 (1929). [Original Hungarian]
Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory (2011), 8-15, 224-235.
Czech alternative to Komlós: Otto Rádl, "Půl milionú výtisků," Přitomnost 6 no. 17 (1929): 261-264.
Russian alternative to Komlós: review of Remarque, Oktiabr' no. 11 (1929): 190-192.
Ukrainian alternative to Komlós : E. R., review of Remarque, Червоний шлях no. 1 (1930): 210-212. [libraria.ua]
Polish alternative to Komlós : (b), review of Remarque, Nowy Dziennik no. 78 (1929): 4.
Austrian alternative to Komlós: Erwin H. Rainalter, "Erich Maria Remarque und sein Buch," Radio Wien (1929): 478-479.
Further reading:
Peter Gatrell, "Russia's First World War: Remember, forgetting, remembering," in Extending the Borders of Russian History: Essays in Honor of Alfred J. Rieber (2002), 285-298.
Peter Gatrell, Russia's First World War: A Social and Economic History (2005). [940.3/47 GAT]
Vera Tolz, "Modern Russian memory of the Great War, 1914-20," in Lohr et al., eds., The Empire and National at War (2014), 257-285. [940.3/47 LOH]
Image: "Excursion on the Marne," Chudak (1929).
