The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy

Oscar Jaszi

• Publisher: Borodino Books
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781789122329
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

The main factor which destroyed the Habsburg Monarchy was the problem of nationality and its dissolution was hastened, but not caused, by World War I. Oscar Jászi spent twenty years studying the dangers that threatened this monarchy but his practical plans for averting these dangers were not given a hearing until it was too late. This book was the culmination of Mr. Jászi's theoretical and practical activity and was enthusiastically received when first published in 1929.
"It is not only effective and dramatic narrative, it is also political science of the first order."—Harold J. Laski
"The work is a liberal education in Central European politics."—Henry C. Alsberg, The Nation
"There have been many books written on the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but there is none which goes so deeply into the causes…in this pitiless yet pitiful analysis, rigorously buttressed with statistics, the tragedy is described without bitterness but with deep feeling."—The Manchester Guardian

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• EDITOR’S PREFACE
• PREFACE
• REMARKS ON THE LITERATURE OF THE SUBJECT
• PART I - SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
• PART II - THE HISTORICAL ATMOSPHERE
• PART III - THE CENTRIPETAL FORCES: THE EIGHT PILLARS OF INTERNATIONALISM
• PART IV - THE CENTRIFUGAL FORCES: THE DRAMA OF THE GROWING NATIONAL DISINTEGRATION
• PART V - THE DYNAMICS OF THE CENTRIFUGAL FORCES
• PART VI - THE DANGER OF IRREDENTA
• PART VII - CONSCIOUS EFFORTS IN CIVIC EDUCATION
• RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER