HIST 121D Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: House Of Habsburg, Industrial Revolution, Working Animal
Document Summary
In russia there were more employees working with censorship than there were books in the country. The most confusing was the austrian empire which later became austria-hungarian empire. Liberal movements still penetrated these regions but in the case of eastern europe in particular liberalism was overpowered by early nationalists. People are seeking to reassert their existence as nations. Throughout the 20s and 30s the creation of literacy groups and museums spread in hasburg empire largely because of the minorities. So to these nationalists they wanted to win some kind of cultural game and sought to gain control of certain institutions like schools so they can speak their own language in school. Among many of these groups demanding cultural autonomy it was hard to define their culture. Many of the slovak groups had no political or historical nation. In czech lands minority in the lands of bohemia, the nobility was german speaking and the nobilities were not local.