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Episode: Escaping a Prison of Peoples? 100 Years after the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
Description: Recorded November 19, 2018.
This public lecture is presented by Mark Cornwall, Professor of European History, University of Southampton.
This year marks the centenary of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a monarchy whose disappearance from the European map transformed the history of the twentieth century. At a time when the UK is planning to exit from another multi-national European body, this talk will revisit the reasons why different peoples decided to exit the Habsburg Empire and create independent states at the end of the First World War. What expectations guided the idealists who created the new Czechoslovak and Yugoslav states? Certainly...