Il lungo 1917 e la caduta della monarchia asburgica

Abstract

This study examines the parallel consequences of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the food shortage in connection with the disintegration of the Habsburg Empire and the rise of the Social Democrats.It also presents and compares both State and Social Democratics Parties’ reactions in the two different parts of the Empire, the Austrian and the Hungarian. The following questions are at the center: why was the Austrian Social Democratic Party able to increase social base and gain significant political positions in the last phase of the war and why did not it all happen to its Hungarian equivalent? The detailed exploration of these reasons will show through which causes Austrian Social Democracy managed to stop a dictatorship drift in 1918-19, while the Hungarian Left did not.

Keywords

• dissoluzione dell'Impero asburgico
• Socialdemocrazie
• Rivoluzione russa
• economia di guerra
• politiche sociali
• Disintegration of the Hasburg
• Disintegration of the Habsburg Empire
• Sociel Democracy
• Russian Revolution
• War economy
• Social policy