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Presented By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

CREES Noon Lecture/Conversations on Europe. Living the End of the Habsburg Empire

Maureen Healy, associate professor of history, Lewis & Clark College

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The fall of European empires in the twentieth century brought a variety of challenges for the nations that had once ruled those empires. The post-World War I transition was particularly difficult in Austria, once the seat of a multinational empire of 52 million people, now a republic of six million, ignominiously referred to as “rump Austria.” The transition spawned a host of worries about the viability of a “small state.” This lecture explores Austrians’ persistent anxieties about being “small,” highlighting a number of ways that kleinstaat rhetoric manifested in domestic politics and foreign affairs.

Maureen Healy received her PhD from the University of Chicago, and is associate professor of history at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She has been an IFK-Fulbright Senior Fellow, and held fellowships at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC, and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Her book "Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I" (Cambridge University Press, 2004) was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association and the Jelavich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Until recently she was book review editor for the "Austrian History Yearbook," and currently serves as director of the first-year Exploration and Discovery program at Lewis & Clark.

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