![]() ![]() It is one he has told before in the slender volume The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction. ![]() Nearly a millennium of European history is bound up with the story Rady – a professor of Central European history at University College London and a specialist in medieval and early modern Hungarian history – has taken on. Seven centuries of Habsburg rule were over. As Martyn Rady recounts in his comprehensive, yet orthodox, chronicle The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power, German Austria’s future Chancellor Karl Renner “visited Emperor Karl in the Schönbrunn Palace, bidding him speed with the words, ‘Herr Habsburg, the taxi is waiting.’” The next day, the Parliament in Vienna declared itself a republic. Rather than abdicate, in an act of careful negotiation, the Austro-Hungarian emperor, Karl I, formally relinquished his involvement in public affairs. By then, the “Red Count” Mihály Károlyi had already seized power in Hungary through a coup, while the Czechoslovaks and Southern Slavs had pro claimed their own republics. ![]() On November 11, 1918, the Great War came to an end. ![]()
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