Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Publications of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

The monograph series Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, published by De Gruyter/ Oldenbourg, holds collected volumes emanating from Kolleg conferences and workshops, as well as monographic studies by staff and affiliated researchers. 

The four-volume series The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century summarizes the current state in core research fields from the perspective of internationally renowned scholars. Each volume is devoted to one of the Kolleg’s central research areas: Challenges of Modernity,Statehood, Intellectual Horizons and War, Violence and Oppression

Cultures of History Forum
The Cultures of History Forum is an online platform for actors and researchers in the areas of public history and memory politics to publish critical analyses and reflections about ongoing debates, museum exhibitions or public policy relating to the history of the twentieth century in the countries of the region of Central Southeastern and Eastern Europe.

Staff Publications

Fellow Publications


Kolleg Publications

Cover Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

Iryna Vushko

Lost Fatherland

Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300267556
February 2024
352 pages

How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe

This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. They include the cofounder of Austro-Marxism and the Austrian republic’s first foreign minister, the cofounder of the European Union after the Second World War, the founder of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Mussolini’s ambassador to Vienna. Some survived the First World War and the resulting geographical divisions in their homelands, and some went on to serve in politics and governments throughout Europe.

Taken together, the stories of these men offer readers a window on broad issues of European history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—chiefly, how an imperial heritage, a shared vision of statehood and nationalism, and a commitment to peaceful conflict resolution helped establish enduring loyalty and unity despite the geographical fault lines resulting from the war. As Iryna Vushko explains, their stories also offer an increasingly nuanced understanding of the achievements and failures of the Habsburg Empire.


Fellow Publications

Cover Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

Iryna Vushko

Lost Fatherland

Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300267556
February 2024
352 pages

How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe

This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. They include the cofounder of Austro-Marxism and the Austrian republic’s first foreign minister, the cofounder of the European Union after the Second World War, the founder of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Mussolini’s ambassador to Vienna. Some survived the First World War and the resulting geographical divisions in their homelands, and some went on to serve in politics and governments throughout Europe.

Taken together, the stories of these men offer readers a window on broad issues of European history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—chiefly, how an imperial heritage, a shared vision of statehood and nationalism, and a commitment to peaceful conflict resolution helped establish enduring loyalty and unity despite the geographical fault lines resulting from the war. As Iryna Vushko explains, their stories also offer an increasingly nuanced understanding of the achievements and failures of the Habsburg Empire.


Staff Publications

Cover Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

Iryna Vushko

Lost Fatherland

Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300267556
February 2024
352 pages

How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe

This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. They include the cofounder of Austro-Marxism and the Austrian republic’s first foreign minister, the cofounder of the European Union after the Second World War, the founder of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Mussolini’s ambassador to Vienna. Some survived the First World War and the resulting geographical divisions in their homelands, and some went on to serve in politics and governments throughout Europe.

Taken together, the stories of these men offer readers a window on broad issues of European history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—chiefly, how an imperial heritage, a shared vision of statehood and nationalism, and a commitment to peaceful conflict resolution helped establish enduring loyalty and unity despite the geographical fault lines resulting from the war. As Iryna Vushko explains, their stories also offer an increasingly nuanced understanding of the achievements and failures of the Habsburg Empire.