Beyond Nationalism
Sanders, Ivan
reasons she announces histrionically at dinner when her mother admonishes her to have sense? "It's people like us who're the only ones who can stop them," Moira says, agreeing with her...
...And there were famous literary figures-Austrian Jewish novelist Joseph Roth, a former ensign, for example---who paid frequent tribute to its enlightened values...
...and Devotions Mary in Contemporary Theology Mary in Literature 11 January 1991:27 In a way, nothing demonstrated Habsburg liberalism more palpably than the army's receptivity to Jewish enlistees...
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...Yet detractors of this patchwork empire always viewed it as an impossible creation, a "prison of nations," whose demise was hastened, if not caused, by the First World War...
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...He was, at the same time, a petty bourgeois at heart with simple habits and tastes--an unassuming, limited, relentlessly mediocre man who could also be remarkably openminded and tolerant of diversity in his empire...
...It was his dullness, perhaps, his reticence, his vacuity that enabled his subjects to see in him what they wished to see...
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...One could almost argue that to understand this soldier-king's obsession with proper conduct and outward form, and the air of unconcern and easygoing neglect it often masked, is to understand the world he ruled over, and even the cultural peculiarities of present-day lands that once made up his realm...
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...In an epilogue to his book, De~ik traces the varying fortunes of former Habsburg officers in postwar nation-states and their adjustment to new political realities in the 1930s and '40s...
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...Habsburg liberalism definitely had limits...
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...And ironically enough, by the time the Habsburg army was finally beefed up and mechanized and readied for modem warfare, it had lost a lot of its glitter and flair, though it never became a truly first-rate fighting force either...
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...In reorganized, modernized military academies cadets could acquire a great deal of theoretical and practical knowledge, but what they were not taught, De',ik tells us, "was the folklore, customs, problems, and aspirations of the monarchy's many peoples...
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...But there is a sadder postscript, on the fate of Jewish veterans: "The cruelest irony in the history of Central European Jewry centers on the decorations and frontline photographs Jewish World War I veterans left behind on the walls of their looted apartments while forced to make their way, during World War II, to the gas chambers...
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...The officers' deep attachment to the emperor, as well as to their comrades in arms, their regiment, did indeed contribute to the monarchy's longevity...
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...A dubious virtue, surely, thougl~ Magris and many others find it praiseworthy...
...And it's not only nostalgia buffs or diehard monarchists who get misty-eyed over its vanished glory...
...This army did have a significant afterlife, nevertheless...
...Istv~in DeLk, in his profusely documented monograph, makes very few sweeping statements about the monarchy as a whole, though he does note that there are "positive lessons" to be learned from the "Habsburg experiment," "while the post- 1918 history of the Central and East Central European nation-states can only show us what to avoid...
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...Her speech comes, at least in part, in bitter retaliation to her husband's silence after the bombing, his betrayal of her during it...
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...On the one hand, Francis Joseph was very much a premodem monarch: a distant and dour grand seigneur who distrusted telephones and refused to ride on an elevator...
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...But by the end of the nineteenth century, that army's elite, with its Spanish etiquette, its arcane code of honor, its "suicidally handsome uniforms," as De~ik puts it, was fast becoming an anachronism...
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...For after all, the frightful historical baggage carried by the nascent democracies of contemporary East Central Europe also includes troublesome Habsburg freight...
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...True, their integration was not smooth, their numbers fluctuated, and they did tend to join the reserves, but the fact is that by the end of the First World War, Jews made up a significant portion of the Habsburg officer corps...
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...The Hungarian-born historian concentrates on the monarchy's showcase institution, the army, and demonstrates most convincingly that the multinational Habsburg officer corps was the glue that held the highly disparate empire together and kept domestic peace for much of the nineteenth century...
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...We might also say that the empire survived as long as it did because for all its outward splendor it created institutions (including the army) that were ponderous, lackadaisical, benignly inefficient--slow to act and even slower to let go...
...Ivan Sanders t a time when nationalism is on the march worldwide, and remaining multinational states are torn by ethnic strife, a fresh look at one of the most curious and colorful political formations, the Habsburg Monarchy, may seem especially opportune...
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...Moira is not one to forego the careful application of eyeliner, even if it is under the nervous eye of a young IRA gunman...
...A formidable power in the heart of Europe, Austria, and later Austria-Hungdry, was i n h a b i t e d by Germans, Slavs, Hungarians, Italians, Romanians, to name only the major nationalities, and ruled by German-speaking Habsburg kings who were distinctly unGerman in their more tolerant, peaceable ways...
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