Habsburg Bukovina at the Beginning of the Great War. Loyalism or Irredentism?

Codrul Cosminului

Stefan Purici¹ 

[1] Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava (Romania);

关键词: Ethnic groups;    Bukovina;    First World War;    loyalism;    administration;    war;    irredentism;    Germans;    Jews;    Poles;    Romanians;    Ukrainians;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Modern historiography often presents Austrian Bukovina (1775-1918) as a model for the management of a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional territory. Many researchers have noted that, due to the policies promoted by the House of Habsburg, this province of the empire did not record religious and ethnic conflicts between national communities. On the other hand, at the end of World War I, all ethnic groups, except the German and Jews, adopted hostile positions against maintaining the integrity of Austria-Hungary. This has also been noticed by other historians to highlight the irredentism of non-German nationalities in Bukovina. This study attempts to analyse whether the dominant mood in the province at the end of the Great War was specific to non-German elites around and in the beginning of World War I, or it is the result of population adapting to the aftereffects of the world conflagration. The analysis is based on unpublished archival sources, testimonies of contemporaries and 1913-1914 local press articles.

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