Paramilitary violence in Hungary after the first world war.

From: East European Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Introduction

Long-term structural problems, such as the unequal distribution of power among ethnic groups, a cumbersome bureaucracy and a rigid and essentially undemocratic political structure, coupled with the tensions produced by industrialization and the Great War, led to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in October 1918. The demise of one of the oldest states in Europe failed to generate much sympathy among the Austro-Germans and the Hungarians, who had benefited the most from the existence of the Dual Monarchy, and was welcome by the oppressed minorities ...

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