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Hungarians in the Successor States: From World War I to World War II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Pál Péter Tóth
Pál Péter Tóth*
Affiliation:
Institute of Demography, Budapest
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A direct consequence of World War I was the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the establishment of new states in its place. This has had far-reaching consequences for both regional and world politics. The existing balance of power as well as social, economic and political problems within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, including the nationality conflicts, led to this result. In spite of the unavoidable collapse, the successors, the new states, were not the result of a natural evolution, but were the creations of the major powers—France, Great Britain, the United States and Italy—who through the creation of their new post-war order ignored the long-term interests of the region and the actual ethnic composition of the land.

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I The Historical Background
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1996 , pp. 425 - 435
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Copyright © 1996 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR, Inc. 

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