Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border

Hannes Grandits is Professor of Southeast European History at Humboldt University in Berlin.

“[T]his book is an important, significant addition to the current scholarship on empire and post-imperial breakdown and transition, and on the Habsburg/post-Habsburg history of borderlands.” • Marco Bresciani, University of Florence“This is a very convincing edited volume on the transformation of power from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Austrian Republic after the First World War. Looking at one particular region, Burgenland, that was contested between two losers of the War, the book provides insight into macro- and micro-level decision making processes, changes in hierarchies and power relations between social, ethnic, political and religious groups inhabiting this border region.” • Tim Buchen, Technische Universität Dresden“The present volume offers important studies, based on new research, on the history of Burgenland as a border region in the post-First World War period... Overall, the studies included in the book constitute a significant enrichment of the existing research on the history of Burgenland as a border region.” · Journal: International Journal of Military History and Historiography

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Separation of Austria and Hungary after World War I: A Borderland PerspectiveHannes GranditsPart I: Discussing, Implementing and Explaining a New Border (Region)Chapter 1. The Role of Bolshevism and Anti-Bolshevism in the Struggle for Western Hungary and BurgenlandIbolya MurberChapter 2. The Interallied Commission for the Delimitation of the Boundary between Austria and Hungary, and the New International Order in AustriaMichael BurriChapter 3. Graz Geographers at the Birth of Burgenland: Robert Sieger and Marian SidaritschFerenc JankóPart II: Surviving during (Post-) World War I Economic Disintegration and the Polarization of ClassChapter 4. Surviving and Resisting the Wartime Order: Black-Market Economy in the Border Region of Wiener Neustadt during and after World War ISabine Schmitner-LaszakovitsChapter 5. Polarization, Persistence and Political Mobilization of Class Belongings in Western Hungary /Burgenland after World War I (1919-22)Hannes GranditsPart III: Evolution of a New Elite Power BalanceChapter 6. Petite-Bourgeois Local Revolutions? Post-Habsburg Transitions, Democratization, Local Elites, and the Place of Western-Hungary/BurgenlandGábor EgryChapter 7. The Birth of Burgenland and the End of the Esterházy-EstateMelinda Harlov-CsortánPart IV: Post-Imperial Solidification of Ethnic CategoriesChapter 8. From Mosaic to Pigeonhole: Frames, Loyalties, and Policies among the Croatian Speaking Population in Former Western Hungary/BurgenlandKatharina TyranChapter 9. The Romani and Jewish Population in Burgenland at the Beginning of the Inter-War PeriodUrsula K. Mindler-SteinerIndex