Austria 1918–1972

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Austria’s Point of Departure....Pages 3-13
The Austrian Political Parties....Pages 14-24
The Establishment of the Austrian Republic....Pages 25-30
The Two Faces of Austrian Socialism....Pages 31-38
The New Austria and the Outside World....Pages 39-47
Foreign Loans and Internal Politics....Pages 48-54
Class War and Private Armies....Pages 55-63
The Austrian-German Customs Union and the Western Veto, 1931....Pages 64-70
Dollfuss: Fascist or Austrian Patriot?....Pages 71-84
The Civil War, February 1934....Pages 85-89
Dollfuss: From Civil War to Assassination, 1934....Pages 90-96
Schuschnigg’s Fight without Weapons....Pages 97-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Austrians under Hitler....Pages 121-130
The Allied Powers and the Austrians, 1939–1945....Pages 131-136
The Moscow Declaration on Austria, 1943....Pages 137-147
The Military Carve-up, 1945....Pages 148-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Renner Government and the Occupying Powers....Pages 153-163
The Figl-Schärf Coalition and the Occupying Powers....Pages 164-170
The 1946 Control Agreement....Pages 171-176
The Communist Bids for Power, 1947–1950....Pages 177-186
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Austrian State Treaty and Austrian Neutrality....Pages 187-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
The Last Decade of Coalition Government, 1955–1966....Pages 203-222
Economic Policy-Making: Austria’s ‘Elastic Band’....Pages 223-234
Austria and the Common Market....Pages 235-245
The South Tirol Dispute....Pages 246-253
Single-party Government: from People’s Party to Socialists....Pages 254-264
Austria in the 1970s....Pages 265-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-306