Austria-Hungary: The Fate of an Empire

18 hrs. 8 min.

History & Cultural Studies

Language Russian

Authors Andrei Shary, Yaroslav Shimov

Author Andrei Shary

Author Yaroslav Shimov

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

“Austria-Hungary: the Fate of an Empire” is an engaging account of an extremely varied and surprisingly interesting country—a sort of European Atlantis—known to Russian readers far less than it deserves. The Habsburg powers are long gone from the maps; World War I destroyed that, perhaps, most comfortable empire in history. Yet the experience accumulated by its peoples of coexisting with one another remains relevant for Central Europe to this day. Journeys through a dozen independent states—whose territories once had been parts of Austria-Hungary—confirm it: even in today’s world, the echoes of those gone times still make themselves heard.

The first edition of the book was published in 2010 under the title “Roots and the Crown. Essays on Austria-Hungary: the Fate of an Empire,” and since then it has become a true bibliographic rarity.

Never before has such a profound analysis of historical processes been accompanied by such a gripping account of the everyday life and holidays of the Danubian monarchy—by such vivid portraits of the Habsburg dynasty and its subjects—by such lively sketches of Habsburg cities, both large and small.

Contents:

Unknown Empire
[*] 1 Crowns of the Empire
Vienna. Throne of the Earth
[*] 2 Map of the Empire
Budapest. Hungarian Noon
[*] 3 Everyday Life and Holidays of the Empire
Prague. A Peasant Girl
[*] 4 Spears of the Empire
Trieste. The Austrian Riviera
[*] 5 Friends and Enemies of the Empire
Sarajevo. An Exemplary Colony
[*] 6 The Fall of the Empire
Lviv. The Eastern Outskirts
[*] 7 After the Empire
A Bridge over the Leitha
The Habsburg Dynasty: A Timeline of Events
Bibliography
About the authors of this book