From the history of the formation of a socio-cultural community: the austro-hungarian experience

Abstract

The article «From the history of the formation of a socio-cultural community: the austro-hungarian experience» is concerned with the issues of building a socio-cultural community, the case of Austria-Hungary. The author focuses on the experience of national construction in Austria-Hungary, which is relevant in the light of the development of countries that are multi-ethnic and multicultural formations, which include the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, which established the dualist model of AustriaHungary, led to the emergence of a unique multi-ethnic European monarchy of a Federal type. Its evolution in the late XIX-early XX century largely anticipated the problems solving practices of national-territorial Federal structure in modern conditions. This model was based on Federal unity in combination with the internal administrative and political independence of the subjects. Strict adherence to the division of powers between Cisleithania and Transleithania with the dominance of the Central Imperial power, in terms of the nineteenth century, undoubtedly, was evidence of the high legal culture of public education. The authors come to the conclusion that the Austro-Hungarian experience of forming a socio-cultural community, despite the collapse of a unified state under the influence of mainly adverse external forces, gives more grounds for positive assessments. The analysis shows that the collapse of a unified state was not predetermined, because in terms of national construction, and in terms of economic development, the Danube monarchy had no unsolvable fundamental contradictions.