In the Hungarian historiography the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire had been told mostly from the perspective of the major political developments in Budapest. However, while Mihály Károlyi and his democratic government seized power in Budapest relatively smoothly, the Hungarian countryside experienced a massive wave of popular violence. (article of Tamás Révész)

The Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is presenting a one-day workshop on the centennial anniversary of the transitional period of imperial collapse and national state-building.