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The Habsburg Empire: A New History
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u/k_hopz · 31 pointsr/AskHistorians

Very nice answer! You have a good grasp of how Austria-Hungary and its army were organized in 1914. I will mention that at the regimental level, many of Austria-Hungary's army units were composed of multiple language groups. These so-called "mixed" regiments actually outnumbered the ethnically-homogeneous units in the k.u.k. Armee. I'd recommend taking a look at this statistical book that gives the language composition of every Austro-Hungarian military unit in 1914. You'll notice that many of the regiments contained two or even three national groups. The k.u.k. 91st Infantry Regiment, for example, was 54% German, 46% Czech. The k.u.k. 72nd Infantry Regiment, on the other hand, was 20% German, 28% Hungarian, 51% Slovak, and 1% "other." It's important to note that in the k.u.k. Army units, languages became "official regimental languages" if 20% or more of the unit spoke that tongue. If a language met this 20% threshold, officers in that regiment (theoretically) had to be able to speak it. Officers received little to no Army support in acquiring these languages, so oftentimes they fell short.

On another note, Austria-Hungary had a good many Slavic language groups by 1914. These included Slovenes, Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians (called Ruthenes at the time), Romanians, and a number of smaller groups speaking Slavic languages. In fact, at the time, many Hungarian and German elites worried that the empire was becoming "too Slavic." A fantastic overview of Austria-Hungary's history can be found in Pieter Judson's The Habsburg Empire: A New History.

u/AShitInASilkStocking · 1 pointr/badhistory

Is that this one? I thought about downloading it myself, how are you finding it on the whole?

u/flunkybuckets · 1 pointr/badhistory

But "The Habsburg Empire: A New History," says that the Empire was effective on an institutional level? Granted I haven't read the book, but the Amazon description pretty clearly states this.