Article: Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph. (book reviews)

The victorious allies of World War I finished off the defeated and wrecked Austro-Hungarian Empire with the treaties of St. Germain and Trianon in 1919-20, and of their handiwork Winston Churchill was reputed to have said, "we stuck the wrong pig."

As many British historians have written since, the old Hapsburg monarchy may have been inept and autocratic in ruling all the different nationalities within an empire that stretched from Poland to Italy. Were they using current political jargon, they would have labeled the empire one of the early failures of multi-culturism in an era of virulent nationalism. But their general conclusion was that Hapsburg rule certainly was ...

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