Editors’ Notes

The articles in volume XXXIV of the Austrian History Yearbook evidence the breadth and vitality of historical research on the lands of the Habsburg monarchy and its successor states. Several of the essays also demonstrate the exciting new work that scholars have been able to undertake in the archives of the postcommunist lands in Central and East Central Europe on topics such as ethnic identity, minorities, and national and ethnic conflict that were often taboo under the pre-1989 governments. The volume begins, as has been the custom since volume XXII (1991), with the Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture, this year a subtle, multilayered discussion of the Revolution of 1918 in Austria by John W. Boyer. The contributions to the forum, "A City of Many Names: Lemberg/Lwow/L'viv/L'vov—Nationalizing in an Urban Context," show how the development of group loyalties, social solidarities, and community life for each of the ethnic groups in the former capital of Austrian Galicia can only be understood with reference to the interactions with the neighboring groups and the other groups' experiences. The processes of forming ethnic and national group loyalties and the politics of ethnic identity and state loyalty also figure prominently in the articles by Balazs Szelenyi on German-Hungarian patriots in the eighteenth century, by Daniel Unowsky on the imperial inspection tour of Galicia in 1880, by Joshua Shanes on Jewish nationalism in Galicia, and by Tanya Dunlap on Romanian nationalist associational life in late nineteenth-century Transylvania. In many areas of the historical discipline, old divisions between political, social, and cultural history have faded in recent years. Writing on Austrian and Central/East Central European history is no different: most of the articles in this volume of the Yearbook combine the methods of political, social, economic, and cultural analysis as needed to address the particular topics. A good case in point is Allison's Rose's article on anti-Semitism and anti-feminism in Vienna around 1900, which shows how the issues of feminism and anti-feminism played out against the backdrop of developing mass politics and popular radicalism.