ABSTRACT
Humanitarian aid underwent a radical change after the First World War. Modern, state-supported, and professionalized foreign aid played an important role in solving the food crisis in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia in the postwar years. A comparison of these two cases reveals that despite all the pre-existing and emerging differences between these regions, the similarities were striking. Some were structural, as certain aspects of foreign aid could not be provided differently, but many stemmed from the shared imperial history of Slovenia and the Bohemian Lands. From this perspective, foreign aid manifested itself as a post-imperial phenomenon, in which new and old, modern humanitarian agencies and imperial institutions worked together to solve a crisis caused by war.
