Hopes, promises, realities : food scarcity and foreign aid

Hájková, Dagmar (author), Stergar, Rok (author)

Humanitarian aid underwent a radical change after the First World War. Modern, state-supported, and professionalized foreign aid played an important role in solving the food crisis in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia in the postwar years. A comparison of these two cases reveals that despite all the pre-existing and emerging differences between these regions, the similarities were striking. Some were structural, as certain aspects of foreign aid could not be provided differently, but many stemmed from the shared imperial history of Slovenia and the Bohemian Lands. From this perspective, foreign aid manifested itself as a post-imperial phenomenon, in which new and old, modern humanitarian agencies and imperial institutions worked together to solve a crisis caused by war.

• Language: English
• Keywords: foreign aid, American Relief Administration, humanitarianism, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, 1919-1923
• Work type: Other
• Typology: 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 165-219
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-183249
• UDC: 341.232(73):94(437+497.1)"1919/1923"
• DOI: 10.5117/9789633869185-4
• COBISS.SI-ID: 272123139
• Publication date in RUL: 09.06.2026

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Nourishing victory : food shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia
• Editors: Václav Šmidrkal, Rok Stergar
• Place of publishing: Budapest [etc.]
• Publisher: CEU Press
• ISBN: 978-96-3386-918-5
• COBISS.SI-ID: 272024579

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: tuja pomoč, ameriška humanitarna pomoč, humanitarnost, Češkoslovaška, Jugoslavija

Projects

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