The Austro-Hungarian Empire, the genesis of national movements and the Rusinian question

The Austrian (from 1867 - Austro-Hungarian) Empire, which existed from 1804 to 1918, was a state formation that connected many nations under the rule of the House of Habsburg. The disappeared Empire not only consolidated and modernized its subordinate peoples and territories, but also managed to restrain the Great German projects on the Slavic peoples' ancestral territories. The Imperial mission proper was to curb the process of the nation-building of the peoples inhabiting the empire and to preserve the hierarchy of ethnoclasses. The author shows how the developing Empire contributed to different types of national movements in its subordinate peoples, depending on the specificity of national regions. Having fulfilled its mission, the Empire gradually came to its end, after which the young Slavic nations (including the Subcarpathian Rusins) could develop within various government projects. The Rusin National Movement, which consolidated in the middle of the 19th century during the all-Slavic rise within the Empire, failed to achieve political consolidation of the status of the Rusin people and Rusin nation, thus a constructive solution to the Rusin question requires a further search.

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