English Translation

EEEE=EEEEEEEEEEE The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in lgl8 created a number of new states. Since the revolutionary years of the year l848, almost all the peoples of this huge nation state have had the longing for freedom and the creation of their own state, if possible a nation state. This ideology of the nation-state and the freedom dream of a republican state form it seems entirely from the Austria of the pre-war period. In most cases, at least at the beginning, a sharp turning away and counter-movement against everything that the old Austria had created developed. But through the new borders, a different development had to begin. Economic and cultural independence took place, as the old cultural and economic centre of the dual monarchy W i n had lost its attraction to the successor states. Thus, especially the book trade as a mediator between culture and economy had to settle in the