About the Author

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Judith Devlin is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the political culture of Stalinism between the 1920s and 1950s. She has published monographs on the cultural history of France and the contemporary history of Russia and three edited volumes, most recently War of Words: Culture and the Media in the Making of the Cold War. John Paul Newman is Lecturer in Twentieth-century European History at NUI Maynooth. He has researched and published extensively on the history of the impact of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe and on the transnational history of World War I. He has edited a transnational study of veterans and their role in internationalist politics in the interwar period, The Great War and Veterans Internationalism and edited a study of the impact of the Great War in the successor states of Austria-Hungary, Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the War in East-Central Europe. He is the author of Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War. Maria Falina is IRC postdoctoral fellow at the School of History, University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the history of religion and politics in Southeastern Europe and the history of political thought in East Central Europe in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is co-editor of A History of Political Thought in East Central Europe. Her monograph, Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity is forthcoming from I.B.Tauris.