Mindennapi élet a közös hadseregben az általános hadkötelezettség időszakában (1868–1914)
Everyday Life in the Joint K. u. K. Army at the Time of Mandatory National Service (1868–1914)

Summary/Abstract: The study explores the everyday life of the conscripts of the K. u. K. Army at the time of mandatory national service, primarily in Hungary. It predominantly relies on two novel source bases: diaries and memoirs held at the Military History Archives and the manuscript collections of the Hungarian National Library, as well as various disciplinary files preserved in the archives of the K. u. K. Eleventh Hussar Regiment. The theoretical framework is provided by the work of Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, and Michel De Certeau. In this vein, the army barracks are not considered as a “total institution”: the inquiry considers the privates’ responses to authority and discipline, their experience in the strict, closed and often cruel world of military life, and how these affected their internal norms. Thus, the study examines the barracks of the Austro–Hungarian Army as the primary site of the conscripts’ everyday life, in addition to charting their drills and exercises, various disciplinary practices, everyday practices, and the interrelationships among the soldiers.

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