Book Reviews and Notices : Austria from Habsburg to Hitler. BY CHARLES A. GULICK. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1948. Two volumes. Pp. xxiii, 1906. $20.00. )

• Published date: 01 September 1948
• Date: 01 September 1948
• Author: Henry W. Ehrmann
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294800100321
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Deputies were too greatly disciplined in party tactics to be able quickly to
adjust to, and cope with, the emergency that burst upon them with the
passage of the Maginot Line.
The book is written in a clear and simple style. There is an over-
frequent reliance upon cliches, where alternative expressions would seem
not too difficult to manage. The volume is not adapted to the classroom
for text purposes. Nor is it written in a racy or picturesque manner which
seems a prerequisite for the best seller’s list. It is destined, therefore, to be
used chiefly as a collateral reading in colleges and high schools, and for semi-
technical reference use elsewhere. It is the reviewer’s firm belief that this
treatise would do well in translation into Spanish. It would convey to
readers in the other countries of the Western Hemisphere much of that
which we value so highly, but refer to as commonplace.
WILLARD F. BARKER.
U. S. Department of State.
Austria from Habsburg to Hitler. BY CHARLES A. GULICK. (Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1948. Two volumes.
Pp. xxiii, 1906. $20.00. )
Professor Gulick’s monumental work, fruit of fifteen years of research
and investigation, is easily the most important history of the First Austrian
Republic published so far. Many parts of the detailed and painstakingly
documented study might well be considered definitive.
As a student of comparative labor history and international fascism, the
author was attracted by the two decades of economic, social, and political
developments in the small Central-European democracy which had been a
creature of the peace treaties and was to perish under the assaults of fascism
years before its annexation by Hitler. In no other country outside of Soviet-
Russia did the labor movement occupy as predominant a place as the Social
Democratic Party did in post-war Austria. Lying at the crossroads of Italian
and German fascism, abandoned all to early by the democracies in the
struggle of...