‘Time of turmoil’: Sweden, undeclared emergencies, and the experience of crisis and transformation in and around the First World War
Publication date
2023-09-02
Document type
Forschungsartikel
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Series or journal
First World War Studies
ISSN
Periodical volume
14
Periodical issue
2-3
First page
315
Last page
338
Part of the university bibliography
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Language
English
Abstract
During the First World War, Sweden faced a fundamental crisis, indeed a series of crises threatening the country's external security and societal stability. At the turn of the century, the Swedish polity belonged to one of the most distinctly conservative, traditionalist political systems in Europe, revolving around a monarch barely contained by a constitution and a government somewhat derived from parliament. At the end of the war, this polity had transformed into a politically and culturally democratised monarchy, in which universal suffrage had been adopted, and parliament had successfully established itself as the central constitutional force. Not only in international politics but also in the domestic arena, Sweden after 1918 appeared very much like a "neutral victor".
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