Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Permanence and Revolution: National Politics in the Transition to the Successor States
7. Chapter 1. Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions: Local Societies and Nationalizing States in East Central Europe 15
8. Chapter 2. State Legitimacy and Continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: The 1918 Transition in Prague 43
9. Chapter 3. Strangers among Friends: Leon Biliński between Imperial Austria and New Poland 64
10. Chapter 4. Ideology on Display: Continuity and Rupture at Exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873–1928 90
11. Part II. The Habsburg Army’s Final Battles
12. Chapter 5. Reflections on the Legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the Successor States 117
13. Chapter 6. Imperial into National Officers: K. (u.) k. Officers of Romanian Nationality before and after the Great War 136
14. Chapter 7. Shades of Empire: Austro-Hungarian Officers, Frankists, and the Afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918–1929 157
15. Part III. Church, Dynasty, Aristocracy: The Postwar Fate of Imperial Pillars
16. Chapter 8. “All the German Princes Driven Out!” The Catholic Church in Vienna and the First Austrian Republic 177
17. Chapter 9. Wealthy Landowners or Weak Remnants of the Imperial Past? Central European Nobles during and after the First World War 203
18. Chapter 10. Sinner, Saint—or Cipher? The Austrian Republic and the Death of Emperor Karl I 229
19. Part IV. History, Memory, Mentalité: Processing The Empire’s Passing
20. Chapter 11. “What Did They Die For?” War Remembrance in Austria in the Transition from Empire to Nation State 261
21. Chapter 12. “The First Victim of the First World War”: Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory 284
22. Afterword 318
23. Index 327