Table des matières

Günter Bischof

Preface

Introduction

John W. Boyer

Introduction: Boundaries and Transitions in Modern Austrian History

Samuel R. Williamson

Leopold Count Berchtold: The Man Who Could Have Prevented the Great War

• On the Eve
• Sunday, 28 June 1914, 9 a.m., Buchlau, Moravia
• Berchtold Seeks to Gain Control of Habsburg Foreign Policy
• Dinnertime: Tuesday, 30 June 1914
• Days to War
• Why War?

Topical Essays

I. End of Empire/Early Republic: Political (Domestic and Foreign) Legacies

Wolfgang Maderthaner

Utopian Perspectives and Political Restraint: The Austrian Revolution in the Context of Central European Conflicts

Patrick J. Houlihan

Was There an Austrian Stab-in-the-Back Myth? Interwar Military Interpretations of Defeat

• Introduction
• The Dolchstoss in Comparative Context
• Austrian Implications of a Dolchstoss Phenomenon
• Conclusion

Nicole M. Phelps

"A status Which Does Not Exist Anymore": Austrian and Hungarian Enemy Aliens in the United States, 1917-21

Siegfried Beer

Selectively Perceived Legacies of World War I: The Little-Known Halstead Mission in Austria, 1919

John Deak

Dismantling Empire: Ignaz Seipel and Austria's Financial Crisis, 1922-1925

• Austria’s Imperial Inheritance
• Financial crisis and reconstruction

II. Costs of War: Social/Mental/Cultural Legacies

Andreas Weigl

Demographic Transitions Accellerated: Abortion, Body Politics, and the End of Supra-Regional Labor Immigration in Post-War Austria

• The Legacy of War
• An “Overpopulated” New State?
• The Acceleration of Epidemiologic Transition
• Austria: The Core of the “Quiet Revolution” in Interwar Europe
• Illegitimacy: Stable Patterns, Changing Attitudes

Verena Pawlowsky et Harald Wendelin

Government Care of War Widows and Disabled Veterans after World War I

• The Pension System: Fundamental Principles and Realisation in Practice
• The Disabled Veterans’ Movement: Formation and Orientation
• Conclusion

Ke-chin Hsia

A Partnership of the Weak: War Victims and the State in the Early First Austrian Republic

• The Austrian Public Authority at a Moment of Weakness, and a Tale from Bruck an der Leitha
• The “State-Friendly” War Victims
• The Partnership of the Weak
• Conclusion

Gunda Barth-Scalmani

Memory-Landscapes of the First World War: The Southwestern Front in Present-Day Italy, Austria and Slovenia

• “Lieux de Mémoire”: From the National to the Regional Level
• The Political Contexts of Memory Landscapes in the Area of the Southwestern Front
• Patterns of Regional Historiography Relating to the First World War
• Is There a New View on the Traces of War in the Landscapes of the Southwestern Theater of War?
• Reasons for Mooring the First World War in the Regional Functional Memory

Julie Thorpe

Pan-Germanism after Empire: Austrian “Germandom” at Home and Abroad

• “Pan-Germans” and Pan-Germanism
• Germandom at Home: Rebuilding Austria’s German heritage
• Germandom Abroad: Activists and Missionaries for German Austria

Johannes Koll

Sudeten Germans in Austria after the First World War

• Introduction
• Constitutional aspects
• Sudeten Germans and Sudetenland: Conceptual Aspects
• Societal aspects
• Aspects of the public discussions
• Final remarks

Robert Pyrah

Consensus vs. Control: The Politics of Culture in Interwar Austria, a Reassessment (with special emphasis on literature and the theatre)

• I: Literary Background: The Inconsistent Mapping of Themes to Political Ideology, 1918-1934
• II: Institutional Factors for Overlap, 1918-1934
• III: The “Corporate State,” 1934-38: Internal Tensions
• Conclusion

Sara O.M. Yanovsky

Jewish Education in Interwar Vienna: Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Between the Austrian State and the Viennese Jewish Community

• Introduction
• Decision Making in the IKG
• Conversion, Intermarriage and the Denomination of Children
• Religious Exercises and Customs in Public Schools
• Religious Exercises
• The Sabbath at Public Schools
• Head Covering
• The Parallel Class Crisis, the Jewish Primary School and the Road to Segregation
• The Parallelklassenverordnung
• The Jewish Primary School
• Towards Complete Segregation
• Conclusion

III. Habsburg Successor States: Economic Legacies

Andreas Resch

Under Pressure to Adapt: Corporate Business and the New Order in Post-1918 Central Europe

• 1. The Immediate Economic and Political Consequences of World War I for Corporate Business in Central and Eastern Europe
• 2. The Banking Sector in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria after World War I
• 3. Adaptive Strategies of Industrial Firms
• 3.1 Coal and Steel
• 3.2 Selected Mechanical Engineering Companies
• 3.3 Mautner Textile Group
• 4. Conclusions

Peter Berge

Wealth, Poverty and Institutions in the Habsburg Empire’s Successor States (1918-1929)

• Introduction
• Institutions in the service of revisionism: the case of Hungary in the 1920s
• Institutions in the grip of party politics: the case of Austria’s First Republic, 1918-1933
• Institutions as a vehicle of national unity: the case of Czechoslovakia in the 1920s
• Institutions and the clash of traditions: a brief survey of Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia in the 1920s
• Conclusion

Coda: A Twentieth Century Family

Peter Berger

The Lost and Saved: A Memoir of the Persecution of Jews in Vienna and Budapest

Books reviews

Evan B. Bukey

Brigitte Hamann, Hitlers Edeljude: Das Leben des Armenarztes Eduard Bloch

Munich: Piper, 2008

William Johnston

Richard Faber and Sigurd Paul Scheichl, eds., Die geistige Welt des Friedrich Heer

Vienna: Böhlau, 2008

Michael S. Maier

Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Österreicher in der Deutschen Wehrmacht: Soldatenalltag im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Vienna: Böhlau, 2009

Reinhard Heinisch

Wolfgang Schüssel with Alexander Purger, Offengelgt

Salzburg: Ecowin, 2009

Alexander Smith

Martin Strauβ and Karl-Heinz Ströhle, eds., Sanktionen—10 Jahre danach: Die Maβnahmen der Länder der Europäischen Union gegen die österreichische Regierung im Jahr 2000

Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2010

Annual review

Reinhold Gärtner

Austria 2009

• Elections EU-Parliament in Austria
• Elections in Upper Austria and in Vorarlberg
• AUA and Hypo Group Alpe Adria
• BZÖ, FPK and FPÖ
• Economic and Statistical Data

List of Authors