Resumen de Raz Segal. Genocide in the Carpathians. War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914‐1945, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2016, 211 pp., ISBN: 978‐0‐8047‐9666‐8: Ethnic Cleansing in the Sub-Carpathian Region, 1914-1945
At the beginning of his book Genocide in the Carpathians, Raz Segal introduces his readers to its focus in the following way:
assumes a broad view and constructs a narrative of the intertwined pasts of the groups that together composed society and culture that came under pressure and attack by several central and regional state authorities as they strove to realize visions of nation and state building (p.13).
What are these groups, what are their relations, who was pressured and what is the nucleus of this superbly written and researched book? First, what were the important historical events in the region that the author so elaborately and insightfully documented during his one year stay in the region? In the Introduction we read that the lands of Eastern Europe have been researched extensively since World War II, however research of the borderlands of Eastern Europe has been very limited and the Subcarpthian Rus' studies have been neglected. Because this region was a borderland space between Czechoslovakia and Hungary during the interwar period and World War II it has experienced shifting of powers, social and political violence
