The article surveys the social and military history of Austria-Hungary during th…

Since the end of World War One it has generally been accepted that the collapse …

While for the official Austrian state it was in some ways an uneasy task to comm…

Food became a scarce – and thus decisive – resource for the Habsburg Empire’s wa…

The closing of the parliament in Vienna in spring 1914 led to the consolidation …

Apart from a few brief words regarding the relevant scientific work of internati…

The First World War was a period of repression and severe privation in Austria-H…

This article considers the links between Austrian literature and the First World…

While on the Western Front there were only limited territorial movements, the Ea…

This article describes the structure and development of the Austro-Hungarian war…

The Austrian economy went through several phases in the interwar period, beginni…

The undisputed superiority of the Western Powers, above all Great Britain in the…

Austria-Hungary’s General Staff enjoyed a monopoly on war planning. Its long-tim…

The following article offers an overview of the central fields of research conce…

The following pages - focusing on the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and the in…

This essay traces the experience on the plural home fronts of the Habsburg Empir…

In July 1914 the Habsburg monarchy went to war with Serbia declaring it sought n…

The article presents a new estimate of the war costs and an overview of war fina…

Estimates of the total losses of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces range from 1.…

Until his death in 1918, Victor Adler was the most prominent Austrian socialist …

Austrian and Hungarian citizens working in war-related industries were exempt fr…

The Austro-Hungarian automotive industry and the necessary equipment for militar…

The Imperial and Royal Ministry of the Imperial and Royal House and of Foreign A…

Otto Bauer was a leading Austro-Marxist and socialist politician who served duri…

Graf Leopold Berchtold, Habsburg foreign minister from 1912 to 1915, was confron…

The mutiny of the sailors on Cattaro, the Austrian-Hungarian Navy Base, occurred…

In his youth, the archduke was introduced to the idea of federalism by Archduke …

Friedrich Naumann’s Mitteleuropa (1915) was a liberal voice in the largely illib…

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf was an Austrian officer and Chief of the General Sta…

Ottokar Graf Czernin was an Austrian politician and the minister of foreign affa…

During the First World War both sides accused each other of employing illegal sm…

Of the two world wars, the First World War was special in that fear figured prom…

A minority section of the women’s movements opposed World War I and organized th…

Under the terms of the 1867 constitution, Francis Joseph retained his prerogativ…

This biographical overview of Archduke Franz Ferdinand examines the evolution of…

Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, expressed a war-weariness …

Germany’s offer of unconditional support to its Austro-Hungarian ally in July 19…

Karl Kraus was one of the 20th century’s most significant satirists. While his p…

During the years 1915 to 1918 in the internment camp in Markl (Windigsteig), in …

The real naval war in the Mediterranean turned out to be a struggle against Germ…

The Austrian writer Robert Musil served as a soldier throughout the entire perio…

The Prochaska Affair was a diplomatic dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia…

On 25 May 1913 Colonel Alfred Redl, the former head of Austria-Hungary’s militar…

Karl Renner quickly became one of the main theoreticians of a policy of support …

Joseph Roth was a Jewish writer and journalist. His experiences at the Eastern F…

Camillo Ruggera was an officer of the General Staff in the Austro-Hungarian army…

The Treaty of Saint-Germain was signed by Austria and twenty-seven Allied and as…

Although sanjak usually means any one of many Ottoman administrative units, one …

Stephan Baron von Sarkotić was an Austro-Hungarian general who had already made …

This article deals with the activities of journalist and photographer Alice Scha…

The Sixtus Affair was the failed attempt by Emperor Charles I. of Austria and hi…

During the First World War, governments, civilians and soldiers alike prized smo…

Storm troopers were soldiers in specialized assault units, which emerged in the …

Karl Graf von Stürgkh was an Austrian member of the Imperial Council, Minister f…

Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. She wr…

The Last Days of Mankind (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit) is the major work by …

Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities) is a novel by Robert Mu…

Before and at the beginning of World War I, various proposals concerning the cre…

The Treaty of Trianon is one of the Paris peace treaties that ended the First Wo…

The Austro-Hungarian battleship Viribus Unitis was commissioned in reaction to t…

The latter Austrian Land Vorarlberg saw the rise of a grass root movement for a …

The War Archives (Kriegsarchiv), centre of the official historiography of the Im…

The War Press Office, or Kriegspressequartier (KPQ) was the central propaganda i…

The War Requirements Acts were passed in Austria-Hungary in 1912. They placed mi…

During the First World War, Austria-Hungary implemented a state of emergency wit…

The Vienna Philharmonic, a music institution typical of the high bourgeoisie bef…

The First World War and its direct repercussions in the postwar period (revoluti…

The term "atrocity" describes an act of violence condemned by contemporaries as …

In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …

This article presents cartoonists as patriotic propagandists mobilizing their pe…

The centenary events surrounding the First World War have produced a significant…

Libraries (local, specialist, and national) contributed in numerous and importan…

This article discusses how European museums – in particular, national war museum…

By 1914 the leading states had succumbed to varying degrees of militarism, subor…

The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…

The article discusses the role of the media in the complex international process…

This article seeks to present an overview of First World War literature across m…

The discourse about the Great War during the interwar period was shaped by numer…

It is impossible to talk about “the” medical care or “the” medical service of Wo…

Change and continuity marked belligerent societies’ norms and values during the …

The idea of peace in total war may seem irrelevant, but pacifism, or peace activ…

The Great War gave new impulses to the further development of public welfare sys…

This article summarizes and compares the principal arguments and strategies of p…

From 1914 to 1918, theatres in all major European cities staged plays – comedies…

Reflecting current historiography, this article focuses primarily on Christian c…

October 1918 witnessed the collapse of the German and Austro-Hungarian armies, b…

Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …