Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses since 1918

Download or read book Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses since 1918 written by Magdalena Baran-Szołtys and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918 the Danube Monarchy ceased to exist and its provinces became parts of the Monarchy's successor states, which increasingly assumed the character of nation-states. The regimes of these countries were usually oblivious and/or hostile to remnants of the erstwhile Austrian rule due to ideological reasons: they treated them as traces of a superimposed imperial power and an alien – democratic, pluralistic, liberal – tradition. Notwithstanding that fact, erasing the Habsburg Empire from maps of Europe did not entail the entire cancelation of its legacy on the former Habsburg territories. Although officially neglected or suppressed, this legacy made itself felt, overtly or tacitly, in discourses present in the public sphere of the countries that superseded the Monarchy.