The document discusses political and social developments in Central and Southeast Europe from 1871-1914. It focuses on the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, describing the rise of nationalist parties in both the Austrian and Hungarian parts. It also examines the Balkan states of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and the declining Ottoman Empire's role in the Balkans. Key figures and events discussed include the Christian Social Party in Austria, Zionism founder Theodor Herzl, and tensions between Austria-Hungary and the Balkan states that contributed to World War I.
2. major themes of this session
The Dual Monarchy
The States of Southeastern Europe
Kakania
Politics and Economics in Austria
The Kingdom Of Hungary
Splendor and Decline
Austria and the Balkans
Rumania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece
Turkey and the Balkans
34. Georg Ritter von Schörnerer (1842-1921)
• 1873-originally a liberal, elected to the
Reichsrat (Upper Chamber)
• 1879-becomes more nationalist, founds
the Pan-German Party
• 1882-with Jewish politician, Viktor
Adler & others, the Linz Program: “Not
liberal, not clerical, but national.”
• 1888-attacked a Jewish newspaper,
jailed. • Objected to Östjuden refugees
• 1897-led the protest against Badeni,
wildly popular
• 1900-Los von Rom
51. Christlichsociale Partei, after 1893
Herzel, to Lueger’s right
The current main building on the Ringstraße was built between 1877 and 1884 by Heinrich von Ferstel.--Wikipedia
65. Jugendstil owls - Detail of the facade of the Viennese Secession Building. These designs for the building’s facade decoration are attributed to
Koloman Moser.
66.
67. The Kiss (in German
Liebespaar, Lovers) is an
oil painting, with added
silver and gold leaf by the
Austrian Symbolist painter
Gustav Klimt, and was
painted between 1907 and
1908 during the height of
Klimt's "Golden Period".
The painting depicts a
couple embracing one
another, their bodies
entwined in elaborate robes
d e c o r a t e d i n a s t y l e
i n fl u e n c e d b y t h e
contemporary Art Nouveau
style and the organic forms
of the earlier Arts and
Crafts movement. The
painting hangs in the
Österreichische Galerie
Belvedere museum in the
Belvedere palace, Vienna,
and is widely considered a
masterpiece of the early
modern period. It is an icon
o f t h e J u g e n d s t i l —
Viennese Art Nouveau—
and is considered Klimt's
most popular work.—
Wikipedia
141. Dragutin Dimitrevich, aka,“Colonel Apis” 1876-1917
Dimitrijević, circa 1900—Wikipedia
1892-entered the Belgrade Military Academy (age
16) A brilliant student, recruited into the Serbian
Army General staff upon graduation
1903-part of the group of junior officers who
executed the assassination. He was badly wounded.
Three bullets were never removed…”the savior of
the Fatherland”…appointed Professor of Tactics at
the Military Academy. He visited Germany and
Russia where he studied the latest military ideas.
1912-13-during the Balkan Wars Dimitrijević's
military planning helped the Serbian Army achieve
several important victories
Dimitrijević's main concern was what he viewed
as the liberation of all South Slavs, especially Serbs,
from Austria-Hungary. Although Serbia was already
an independent country, many Serbs in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia and Vojvodina were still under
Austro-Hungarian rule. Dimitrijević, who used the
code name Apis, became leader of the secret Black
Hand group. Dimitrijević had his men disguised as
Albanians while committing political murders—
Wikipedia
170. The Habsburg dynasty was Europe’s oldest “immovable object,” older than any of the other
Great Powers, or, for that matter, the Ottoman “sick man”
the nationality question will bedevil politics in Austria, even more so in Hungary, until the
post-war dismemberment
still, esthetic splendor accompanied political decline in Vienna
nationalism in the Balkan successor states kept their rivalries at a high pitch as their Great
Power patrons uneasily looked on
the sultan in Constantinople, their erstwhile overlord, presided over an ever-shrinking empire
Russia saw her role of guardian of the South Slavs as a sacred trust
another story
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