THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN COMPROMISE OF 1867 AND ITS CONTEMPORARY CRITICS
THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN COMPROMISE OF 1867 AND ITS CONTEMPORARY CRITICS

Summary/Abstract: Though the revolutions of 1848-1849 were ultimately put down by the Habsburgs and their Russian allies, Austria came out of this Pyrrhic victory as a much weakened power. A series of international conflicts such as the Italian wars of 1859 and 1866 and, particularly, the Prussian war of 1866 clearly demonstrated that Austria was no longer the major military power that it had been during the long decades when Prince Metternich's Holy Alliance system was at work. The international status of the empire was increasingly dependent upon its unavoidable internal, structural reorganization which was destined to recreate the economic and social energies of this vast East-Central European realm. The Austro-Hungarian Compromise was the last, and perhaps the most fundamental reorganization of the Habsburg Empire before it went down in history after World War I.

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