Unter Beobachtung: Osterreich Seit 1918

Text in German. Over 100 years of history includes Manfried Rauchsteiner's revised and expanded new edition of his book, Under observation. Austria since 1918 ". The multiple award-winning historian offers an exciting and varied overview of the country's historical developments. Austria was - and is - always good for excitement. What began as an experiment in 1918 with the establishment of the First Republic, failed again in 1938, which many people registered with satisfaction. In 1945 the four occupying powers placed the country under curate. And subsequently Austria repeatedly attracted international attention: in 1956 during the popular uprising in Hungary, in 1968 during the occupation of Czechoslovakia, in 1986 after Kurt Waldheim was elected Federal President of Austria, in 1991 during the Slovenian War of Independence, in 2000 after the formation of a small coalition , after the "Ibiza Affair" in 2019 to the current Corona crisis. The country was seen as a problem zone, a special case, a model student and several times as a bad boy who you wanted to watch the fingers of today.