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Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Hungarian Half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Zoltán Szász
Zoltán Szász*
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Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
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The collapse of the three great multi-national and multi-ethnic empires—the Czarist Russian, the Ottoman Turkish and the Austro-Hungarian—was an immediate consequence of World War I and the ensuing revolutions. Of these three, only the empire of the Habsburgs was really considered to be an integral part of nineteenth-century European developments. Although historians and contemporaries may have questioned its modernity and viability, few would have challenged its credentials as part of Europe. Yet its demise was rooted—as for the other empires—in the unresolved nationality questions which still bedevil the region in our own time.

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I The Historical Background
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1996 , pp. 390 - 408
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Copyright © 1996 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR, Inc. 

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