CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Ashkenazy, Cole |
|---|---|
| Title | Loyal Victims: The Memory of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Former Cisleithanian German Language Press, 1920-1929 |
| Summary | Following the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1918, German speakers across Central Europe found themselves suddenly thrust into centralizing and nationalizing states as a minority population. This thesis investigates what these German speakers recalled about their Habsburg past during the often neglected, but formative decade of the 1920s. Three regional case studies, Bukovina in Romania, Moravia in Czechoslovakia, and Slovenia in Yugoslavia are combined with a focus on two periods of mnemonic concentration: the 1921 coup attempts of former emperor Karl, and the tenth anniversary of the 1918 transition. The German speaking Jewish population of the areas is also included. This approach finds a wide variety of views, including the established nostalgic narratives and well-known descriptions of the Habsburg Monarchy as a backward prison of nations. Ultimately the predominant perspective of the Habsburg legacy across Central Europe was a mixture of positive and negative associations. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin; Trencsényi, Balázs |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/ashkenazy_cole.pdf |
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