The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923: The Civilianization of War Jay Winter

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192870734
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192870735
• Author(s): Jay Winter

On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers came from Ankara and Athens, from London, Paris, and Rome, and from other capital cities to affirm that war was over. The Treaty they signed fixed the boundaries of present-day Greece and Turkey, and marked a beginning of a new phase in their history.

That was its major achievement, but it came at a high price. The Treaty contained within it a Compulsory Population Exchange agreement. By that measure, Greek-Orthodox citizens of Turkey, with the exception of those living in Constantinople, lost the right of citizenship and residence in that state. So did Muslim citizens of Greece, except for residents of Western Thrace. This exchange of nearly two million people, introduced to the peace conference by Nobel Prize winner and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, provided a solution to the immense refugee problem arising out of the Greek-Turkish war. At the same time, it introduced into international law a definition of citizenship defined not by language or history or ethnicity, but solely by religion. This set a precedent for ethnic cleansing followed time and again later in the century and beyond.

Table contents:

Part 1. The International Context
1. The Road from Geneva

Part 2. The Eastern States Reconfiguring The Nation
2. The Road from Ankara
Turkey and the Wilsonian Moment at Lausanne
The Road to Lausanne
The Impasse
Lausanne and the Birth of the Turkish Republic
Conclusion
3. The Road from Athens
4. The Road from Yerevan
Part 3. The Western States Reconfiguring Empire
5. The Road from London
6. The Road from Paris
7. The Road from Rome
Part 4. Conclusion
Index
List of Plates

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