Food shortages during the Post-Habsburg transition in the Bohemian lands and Slovenia

Šmidrkal, Václav (author), Stergar, Rok (author)

This article introduces the forum on food shortages during the post-Habsburg transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia. Using examples from these regions, it first outlines the food crisis that developed during World War I and contributed to the internal disintegration of the Habsburg Empire. The article then turns to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, successor states which, despite their victorious status and optimistic prospects for the future, had to contend with food shortages that lasted well beyond 1918. Shortages remained one of the main challenges to the consolidation of these newly formed states. Finally, and most importantly, the article provides an overview of the state of the art in Czech, Slovene, and international historiography, identifies gaps in knowledge, and presents our approach to the topic.

• Language: English
• Keywords: food shortages, hunger, post-Habsburg transition, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 243-253
• Numbering: Vol. 55
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-155052
• UDC: 94(497.4:437)"1918/1924"
• ISSN on article: 1558-5255
• DOI: 10.1017/S0067237823000875
• COBISS.SI-ID: 188535811
• Publication date in RUL: 18.03.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Austrian history yearbook
• Publisher: Rice University
• ISSN: 1558-5255
• COBISS.SI-ID: 520850713

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: pomanjkanje hrane, lakota, postimperialna tranzicija, Češkoslovaška, Jugoslavija

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Czech Science Foundation
• Project number: GF21-30350K

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: N6-0190
• Name: Hraniti zmago: Preskrba s hrano in postimperialna tranzicija v čeških deželah in Sloveniji, 1918-1923