Poslední pokusy o záchranu a přestavbu Rakousko-Uherska (květen – listopad 1918)

• Authors: Proks P.

Title variants

EN

FINAL ATTEMPTS TO MAINTAIN AND RESTORE THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE (MAY - NOVEMBER 1918)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In May 1918, the Habsburg Empire completely fell under the influence of Imperial Germany, thus severing all chances for separated peace with the Entente powers, which might have facilitated survival of the Danube state system. The Viennese political circles decided to comply with the German nationalists' demands to ensure German supremacy over Cislaitania. Similarly, hopes of democratic reforms in Translaitania fell down. This is why Slav nations turned away from staying within the Habsburg Empire and in collaboration with the Entente powers strove to create their own states. The Cislaitanian Germans got ready for the declaration of German Austria or even affiliation with Germany, while the Hungarian representatives fought hard against any democratic reforms. As the result of intensifying social and national disputes and the lost war, the Habsburg Empire started to disintegrate of its own accord, breaking into individual succession states in October and November 1918 (i.e. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Austria and Hungary). In addition, Italy acquired Trieste and Trident and Romania acquired Bukovina and Transylvania from the former Habsburg territory. In the ensuing developments, the new European arrangement became subjected to heavy sufferings during the world powers' struggles.

Keywords

EN

FOREIGN POLICY; HABSBURG EMPIRE; WORLD WAR I

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 94
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-13
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Proks P.

• P. Proks, Historicky ustav AV CR, v. v. i., Prosecka 76, 190 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA04538748