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Episode: Without any Revolution and Riots: The Quiet Collapse of the Habsburg Empire, 1918
Description: Recorded October 18, 2018.
This public lecture will be presented by Professor Alexander Watson, Professor of History, Goldsmiths, University of London.
The end of the First World War was a transformative moment for East-Central Europe. The historiography is dominated by the fraught peace deliberations to build a brave new world and the ethnic rivalry and ideological conflict within and between the newly forming nation states in 1919-23. This talk will focus on the earlier, neglected instant of Habsburg imperial collapse in October 1918. It will ask why, in a period usually defined by its violence and chaos, the revolutions that spread across the...