Binding: Unknown Binding Label: H. Holt and company Manufacturer: H. Holt and company Publication Date: 1924 Publisher: H. Holt and company Studio: H. Holt and company
Editorial Reviews:
NEW GOVERNMENTS OF CENTRAL EUROPF BY MALBONE W. GRAJIAM, JR., PH. D. ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Assisted by ROBERT C. BINKLEY, M. A., REFERENCE LIBRARIAN HOOVER WAR LIBRARY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LONDON SIR ISAAC PITMAN SONS, LTD. PARKER STREET, KINGSWAV, W. C. a. 1924 PRINTED IN tLNlTED STATES OF AMERICA. PEEPACB THIS book is the product of necessity. It is designed to fill a very obvious lacuna in the literature on comparative govern ment. It is, in part, the product of a course of lectures which the author gave at the University of Missouri in 1922, in part, the result of research in the Hoover War Library at Stanford University. It has been thought necessary to treat the new states in Eu rope, with their new governments, new policies, new institutions, in accordance with the geographjpStt area which they occupy, and in relation to the empires of which they are the successors. Obviously, a full treatment of the new governments involves a discussion of the Succession States of the German, Austro-Gungarian, Russian and Ottoman Empires. In this volume, however, only the successors of the first two ti Ve been dealt with. The Baltic States, Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus demand a separate treatment, one wholly inseparable from a study of the territorial policies of the Russian Soviet Govern ment. The revival of a nationalist Turkey, its rehabilitation in the eyes of the world, its attempts to formulate policies and devise institutions compatible with the religious and political aspirations of Moslem peoples likewise furnish an entirely new and separate development. For these reasons it has been thought advisable to deal with the governments of Central Europe en bloc. The method of approach adopted embraces an understanding of the preexisting scheme of government and a study of the progressive breakdown of empire and the realization of na tionality. Only the historical background deemed necessary to an understanding of the actual forces at work in the various states has been included. The constitutional organization of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires has therefore been sketched with the object of outlining the various political ten dencies and forces at work rather than in any endeavor to ac vi PREFACE quaint the student or reader with the more intimate details of now extinct political organizations. With this background complete, the study of the actual processes of revolution and reorganization has been attempted. No finality can be claimed for any governmental structure it is, however, necessary to understand the structure as it now exists, and more particularly, to grasp the forces, military, economic, racial, psychological, that are at work attempting to modify, amend, adapt, restore, the constitutional mechanism. These the author has attempted to evaluate and interpret. The sources utilized in the preparation of this work have been many, and exceedingly varied. Whenever possible, the primary sources have been those officially sponsored by one government or another. Particularly is the author indebted to the unrivaled facilities afforded by the Hoover War Library at Stanford Uni versity. The chief sources for the political history of the vari ous countries covered have been the British Enemy Press Sup plement to the Daily Review of the Foreign Press for the period ending August 31, 1919, the French Bulletin Periodique de la Presse Allemande and the similar bulletins dealing with the po litical developments in Austria-Hungary and in Austria and Hungary following the breakup of the Dual Monarchy. For Czechoslovakia, the Gazette de Prague, a semi-official publica tion, has been freely consulted for the period 1919-1922, as well as the files of the Prager TagUatt for the latter part of 1918...
