The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria: A Reassessment

ISBN-13: 9780765809704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 331 str.

Gunter Bischof; Alexander Lassner

Opis

The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933/34-1938) have been denounced as "Austrofascism" from the left, or defended as a Christian corporate state ("Stondestaat") from the right. During this period, Austria was in a desperate struggle to maintain its national independence vis-o-vis Hitler's Germany, a struggle that ultimately failed. In the end, the Nazis invaded and annexed Austria (Anschluss").Volume 11 of the Contemporary Austrian Studies series stays away from these heated historiographical debates and looks at economic, domestic, and international politics sine ira et studio. Timothy Kirk opens with an assessment of "Austrofascism" in light of recent discourse on interwar European fascism. Three scholars from the Economics University of Vienna analyze the macroeconomic climate of the 1930s: Hansjrg Klausinger the "Vienna School's" theoretical contributions to end the "Great Depression"; Gerhard Senft the economic policies of the Stondestaat; and Peter Berger the financial aid from the League of Nations. Jens Wessels delves into the microeconomic arena and presents case studies of leading Austrian businesses and their performance during the depression. Jim Miller looks at Dollfuss, the agrarian reformer. Alexander Lassner and Erwin Schmidl deal with the context of the international arena and Austria's desperate search for protection against Nazi Anschluss-pressure and military preparedness against foreign aggression.In a comparativist essay Megan Greene compares the policies of Austria's Haider and Italy's Berlusconi and recent EU responses to threats from the Right. The "FORUM" looks at various recent historical commissions in Austria dealing with Holocaust-era assets and their efforts to provide restitution to victims of Nazism. Two review essays, by Evan Burr Bukey and Hermann Freudenberger, survey recent scholarly literature on Austria(ns) during World War II. This addition to the Contemporary Austrian Studies series will be welcomed by political scientists, historians and scholars with a strong interest in European affairs.

Spis treści

Topical Essays; Fascism and Austrofascism; Economic Development and Economic Policies in the Ständestaat Era; How Far Was Vienna From Chicago in the 1930s? The Economists and the Depression 1; The League of Nations and Interwar Austria; Economic Performance and Micro-Economic Development in Austria, 1929-1938; Engelbert Dollfuss and Austrian Agriculture; A Chancellorial Dictatorship with a “Corporative” Pretext: the Austrian Constitution Between 1934 and 1938; The Foreign Policy of the Schuschnigg Government 1934-1938; Non-Topical Essay; Right-Wing Movements in the European Union; Forum; Commissioning History; The Austrian Historical Commission; The Austrian Reconciliation Fund; The Austrian Life Insurance Sector and the Nazi Regime; Private Commissions; The “Myth” of Kaprun; Review Essays; New Literature on Nazi Austria and the Holocaust; The Waldheim Matter; Studies in Nazi Business History in the Ostmark during World War II; Book Reviews; Otto Klambauer, Der Kalte Krieg in Österreich: Vom Dritten Mann zum Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs (Vienna: Ueberreuter, 2000); Stephen E. Ambrose, The Wild Blue. The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001); Peter Thaler, The Ambivalence of Identity: The Austrian Experience of Nation-Building in a Modern Society , Central European Studies, edited by Charles W. Ingrao (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2001); Peter Berger, Im Schatten der Diktatur. Die Finanzdiplomatie des Vertreters des Völkerbundes in Österreich, Meinoud Marinus Rost van Tonningen, 1931-1936 (Vienna: Böhlau, 2000); Annual Review; Austria 2001

O autorze

Anton Pelinka