Original scientific paper
AUREL C. POPOVICI'S PROGRAM OF GREAT-AUSTRIAN FEDERATION
Ljubinka Karpowicz-Toševa
; Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
A. C. Popovici (1863-1917), a Rumanian from Hungary, was a collaborator with archduke Ferdinand in his efforts to reorganize Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Even though the title of his proposal suggests the United States of America, his ideal was unified Germany. His plan was conditioned by, on the one hand, strengthening of Germany as the most important factor of Central Europe and obvious sympathies toward her and, on the other hand, by the fear of panslavism, by the irredentism in Transylvania, and by the hatred of Magyars. The proposal is interesting because it attempts to reconcile the creation of national states with the legitimacy of »historical rights«. Popovici's proposal stands on the idea of ethnic federalism, where the Monarchy itself takes the initiative of giving enough free space to component nations, without cancelling itself His ideal was a federal stale, which was a compromise between an extreme centralism and extreme federalism. But Popovici succumbed to his own prejudices, planning a federation in which Slavic majority would not be adequately represented.
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210308
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Publication date:
4.7.1994.
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