Violence analyses both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes and armed conflicts between ethnic, social and national groups, as well as the interaction between these two phenomena.

Jochen Böhler is acting Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Jena, Germany.

Wlodzimierz Borodziej was Professor of History at Warsaw University, Poland.

Joachim von Puttkamer is Professor of Eastern European History at Jena University, Germany and Co-Director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg.

Volume introduction 1. The Balkan Wars: patterns of violence in the Balkans leading up to the First World War 2. The war in the East, 1914-16 3. The radicalization of violence and Intermarium's interwar 4. Mass violence and its immediate aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War, 1939-47 5. State socialism: violence, oppression and surveillance 6. The violent dissolution of Yugoslavia, 1989-2001