Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe
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Central Europe
Child relief
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East-Central Europe
Eastern Europe
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Faith-based humanitarianism
Humanitarianism
local humanitarian initiatives
mobilisation
Private humanitarianism
Refugees
reliefl wars and conflict
Socialist humanitarianism
state-building
Transnational history
Welfare
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- ISBN 9781526189936
- Weight: 568g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 is Assistant Professor in Modern European History at University of Warwick
Michal Frankl was Senior Researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project “Unlikely Refuge?”. Currently, he is the head of the Prague Department “Knowledge and Participation” of the Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe.
