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The National Interest

Austria-Hungary: The Empire of the Living Dead

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Radetzky March is an important novel, since it singularly conveys the constrained spirit that some leaders of the Great Powers in Europe must have experienced ...
The National Interest

World War I’s Empire of the “Living Dead”: Austria-Hungary

Key point: The Radetzky March is worth a read and is full os history. Joseph Roth’s magnum opus, The Radetzky March, is perhaps one of the greatest novels that emerged out of the carnage of the First ...
Henry Stewart History on MSN

Why Was Austria-Hungary so USELESS in World War 1?

Why did Austria-Hungary underperform so badly in World War I? This documentary traces the empire’s war from Sarajevo to ...
HeraldNet

Otto von Habsburg, who saw end of empire, dies

BERLIN — Otto von Habsburg saw the crumbling of the empire his family had ruled for centuries and emerged from its ashes as a champion of a united and democratic Europe. The oldest son of ...
The Atlantic

Austria-Hungary and the Balkans

[Unfortunately, through miscarriage in the mails, this paper is some six weeks overdue; but the Editors thought that Mr. Buxton’s great knowledge of the Near-Eastern question would still be useful to ...
The Economist

Lessons for the EU from the Austro-Hungarian Empire

A GOLDEN late-summer light filters through the windows of the Café Landtmann. Bow-tied waiters move among towering hot-house plants. Officials huddle around a table. They are fretting about ...
CounterPunch

A Stroll Through the Ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

My grandmother told me that in Prague one day, when she was a child, she saw a man throwing coins onto the street and yet nobody was picking them up. Then her mother explained that those coins weren’t ...
The Atlantic

The Fall of Austria

THE great characteristic of aristocracies, according to their admirers, is prudence ; and even democrats do not deny the soundness of the claim thus put forward in their behalf. They are cautious, and ...
The New York Times

BANK SYSTEM OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY; Austro-Hungarian Bank Similar to Other Leading Continental Banks. GOVERNMENT CONTROLS IT Its Circulation System -- Severe on Its Credit Likely ...

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The Harvard Crimson

Economic Union Like Old Austrian Empire Vital to Welfare Of Danube Valley Nations, Hungarian Authority Maintains

"The treaties of Versailles, St. Germain, and Trianon have remained intact only through post-war loans extended to the countries of Eastern and Central Europe by the United States and Great Britain," ...
The New York Times

Austria and Hungary.

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