Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses since 1918

In 1918 the Danube Monarchy ceased to exist and its provinces became parts of the Monarchy''s successor states, which increasingly assumed the character of nation-states. The regimes of these countries were usually oblivious and/or hostile to remnants of the erstwhile Austrian rule due to ideological reasons: they treated them as traces of a superimposed imperial power and an alien – democratic, p...