Here are Rebekah's questions for reading and discussion:

Crampton:

1. What arguments did representatives of Czechoslovakism use to persuade the Allies of the necesity of the new state?

2. Why were minority protection treaties necessary in interwar East Central Europe?

3. What were the strengths/weaknesses of communism during the interwar period? To whom was communism most likely to appeal? Why?

4. Where did fascism thrive? What were the characteristics of these fascist movements?

5. Why was anti-Semitism a particularly viable ideology in this period?

Berend:

1. What were the two Hungarian revolutions? How did they build on each other? What was the Hungarian counter-revolution?

2. How was Stamboliski's Bulgarian revolution unique?

3.Why did Austria imagine an Anschluss (joining with Germany)? What was "Red Vienna"?

4. List Miroslav Hroch's three-stage process of nation building.

5. How did the French and British think of/use Wilsonian principles?

6. What were some similarities/differences in the Albanian and Jewish national movements? Why does Berend present them together?

Roth:

1. What did Count Morstia mean when he said, "Now I am homeless and have lost the true home of the eternal wanderer"? (p.167)

2. For whom was the break up of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy a great tragedy? Why?