Századok – 2018
2018 / 6. szám - ÖSSZEOMLÁS 1918 - Murber Ibolya: Az osztrák és a magyar válságkezelés 1918–1920. Hasonlóságok és különbségek a közös birodalom összeomlását követően
AZ OSZTRÁK ÉS A MAGYAR VÁLSÁGKEZELÉS 1918–1920 1320 AUSTRIAN AND HUNGARIAN CRISIS MANAGEMENT 1918–1920 Similarities and Differences after the Collapse of the Dual Monarchy by Ibolya Murber SUMMARY The study explores and compares the decisive domestic and foreign political factors of crisis management in Austria and Hungary after World War I. Although the programs that the dominantly leftish leaders of the two defeated countries proclaimed in the late autumn of 1918 were similar, the political-historical events of state reconstruction and crisis management in the course of 1919 led them on divergent paths. In terms of crisis management, differences seem to have dominated at first glance: a relatively speedy and smooth consolidation in Austria versus the Hungarian events burdened with constant governmental crisis, political transformations, and transitions. In reality, it was a handful of crucial structural differences that elicited the international interventions which resulted in peculiar self-inducting dynamics and divergent courses. While in the case of Austria these external, international impulses played a stabilizing role, in Hungary they had an effect to the contrary.
