Introduction (Mark Cornwall); The foreign policy of the monarchy (F.R. Bridge); "Well-tempered discontent": Austrian domestic politics (Löthar Höbelt; The Bohemian question (Catherine Albrecht); The Hungarian political scene (F. Tibor Zsuppan); The southern Slav question (Janko Pleterski); The eastern front (Rudolf Jerabek); Desintegration and defeat: The Austro-Hungarian revolution (Mark Cornwall).