Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Before There Was Fear
1. In the Labyrinth of Fear
2. Fear in Interwar Culture: The Bolsheviks and "Jewish Communism"
3. The Trauma of a World War: Psychosocial Effects of the Second World War
4. In the Beginning Was Chaos
5. "Out of the frying pan and into the fire": The Dreaded Red Army
6. The Demobilized
7. Looting Fever
8. Outlaws: "The dishonored soldiers' peasant war"
9. It Was More Than Just Travel Nerves
10. The Politics of Fear
11. The Phantoms of Transience
12. The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Hunger, High Prices, and Infectious Diseases
13. Ethnic Phobias and Violence
Conclusion: "The Boogeyman"
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Marcin Zaremba is Professor of History at the University of Warsaw. He is author of the award-winning Wielka trwoga: Polska 1944–1947, over 80 scientific articles, and more than 170 press articles in leading Polish newspapers and weeklies.