Table of Contents

1: World War I And The First Republic; 1: On the Threshold of the Twentieth Century: State and Society in Austria before World War I; 2: Austria in the First World War, 1914–1918; 3: 12 February 1934: Social Democracy and Civil War; 4: The Christian Corporatist State: Austria from 1934 to 1938; 5: 12 November 1918–12 March 1938: The Road to the Anschluß; 2: World War II; 6: The Emigration and Exile of Austrian Intellectuals; 7: Resistance, Persecution, Forced Labor; 3: The Second Republic; 8: Allied Plans and Policies for the Occupation of Austria, 1938–1955; 9: Austria Under Allied Occupation; 10: The Austrian Economy: Basic Features and Trends; 11: “The Big Two”: TheGrand Coalition 1945–1966 and 1987–2000; 12: The Kreisky Era, 1970–1983; 13: Austria and Europe, 1923–2000: A Study in Ambivalence; 14: Austria between 1983 and 2000

About the Author

Rolf Steininger is the Jean Monnet Professor and chair of the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck. Gunter Bischof is chair and Marshall Professor of History and executive director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans. Michael Gehler is professor at the Institute for the History at the Foundation University of Hildesheim and was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bonn.