Austria și Ungaria pe drumul spre Saint-Germain și Trianon.
Austria and Hungary on the Road to Saint-Germain and Trianon.

From the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the National States

Summary/Abstract: The end of World War I, with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ensured, in the area of Central and Eastern Europe, the transition from the imperial state to the national state. The most illustrative transformation was experienced by Austria-Hungary, which collapsed by devolution of power from the centre of the imperial state towards its component ethnic communities. These either formed national states - Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - or, in the case of Italians and Romanians, united the territories inhabited by them with Italy, respectively Romania. The Versailles Treaty system (1919-1920) acknowledges and establishes these geopolitical changes. For Austria, the Saint- Germain Peace Treaty was, as it was for Hungary the Trianon Peace Treaty, the birth certificate of modern independent and sovereign states.

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