Intellectual Aspects of the Long End of the First World War and the Disintegration of the Habsburg Monarchy

Taking an inspiration from the research of Robert Gerwarth on the First World War as a war which "failed to end", as well as from other historians who have put forward the idea of a war which had a long ending from 1917 to 1918 that was only temporary in character and gave way to further destruction and unrest in the post-war years, I shall concentrate on the idea of a "long ending" of the War and the consequences which it left for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, primarily the Habsburg Monarchy. By looking into the relevant scholarly works, I shall attempt to outline the various intellectual preconditions which invited a lack of trust in Central and Eastern European states and imperial projects, simultaneously opening a space for designing new projects based on romantic notions of national states with historical rights, or on the grand narratives of modernisation stemming from the 19th-century ideologies. Taking up a macroregional focus, special attention will be given to examples from Croatian history which can be ascertained in the relevant historiographical works. Prijevod sazetka: Tomislav Brandolica