Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Dieter Stiefel, Alice Teichova (Hrsg.): Sonderband 9. „Zarte Bande” – Österreich und die europäischen planwirtschaftlichen Länder / „Delicate Relationships” – Austria and Europe’s Planned Economies (2006)

Ágnes Pogány: The Changing Image of the Economie Role of Austria in Hungarian Public Discourse

Agnes Pogàny

The Community- Metaphor claimed that Austria helped Hungarian development in various ways in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Experts and politicians of the Kâdâr-era expected similar results from the opening to the West. Hungarian agricultural and raw material exports were expected to finance growing indebtedness and technology imports. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy was rediscovered in Hungary. The new values to be promoted by the economic reforms like market, modernization and entrepreneurship were found there. According to Péter Hanâk, the Monarchy set the eastern frontier to liberalism and constitutionality in Europe.29 The new dominant metaphor placing the role of Austria in a completely different light helped to explain and accept the new turns in political and economic life in Hungary.

Methodology of Calculations on Capital Imports during the Dualism). In: Aetas 2 (1992), Nb. 4. p. 5-18. here p. 12-13.

29 The Preface of Hanâk. Péter: A kelet-kôzép-eurôpai nyomorùsâg okairôl, egy dunatâji hazafi testamentuma. (On the Causes of Misery in East-Central-Europe; the Testament of a Patriot from the Danube Region). In: Jâszi, Oszkâr: A Habsburg-Monarchia felbomlâsa. (The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy). Budapest, 1982. p. 5-57. here p. 48.

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