By focusing on aid in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume adds to the existent scholarly explorations of modern humanitarianism, its actors and practices. In the twentieth century, aid workers assisted victims of war and earthquakes, delivered food, supported health care, provided childcare, or sheltered refugees. The contributors not only reconstruct these diverse histories and their protagonists, but also bring international, national, and local actors together: from grassroots activists to private associations to state-driven “socialist humanitarians” to large Western aid organizations. In doing so, they challenge the often unidirectional, from West-to-East, and asymmetrical perspective on donor-recipient relationships in humanitarian processes. -- .
Doina Anca Cretu, Michal Frankl, Humanitarian Mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction
Part I: Local Humanitarianism
1 Friederike Kind-Kovács: Save the (Workers’) Children: Humanitarian Kindergartens in Budapest’s Slums
2 Franciszek Zakrzewski: Jews and Christians Inside and Outside the Social Care System in Interwar Lubartów
3 Cristian Capotescu: When the ‘Socialist Good Life’ Met its Match: Austerity andHumanitarianCrisis in 1980s Romania
4 Maren Hachmeister: Self-organized Care for Older People in Eastern Germany. From Local Socialist Humanitarianism to post-1989 Transformations
Part II: National Humanitarianism
5 Nikola Tohma: The Czechoslovak Red Cross and Refugee Children from Greece and North Korea
6 Julia Reinke: Refugees in the “Better Germany”. Humanitarian Aid to Greek Refugee Children in the Early German Democratic Republic
Part III: International Humanitarianism
7 Gábor Egry: How to Leave Central Europe? Transnational, Humanitarian State-building and the Post-Habsburg Transition
8 Laura Brade: Western Perceptions of Czechoslovak Humanitarians Interactions under Nazi Occupation, 1938-1939
9 Ruth Nattermann: “The Same Spirit that Led Me into War …” Italian and Transnational Humanitarian Actors and Postrevolutionary Russia
10 Sarah Knoll: Religious Humanitarianism: The World Council of Churches for Refugees in Austria in 1956 and 1968 -- .
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