List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Separation of Austria and Hungary after World War I: A Borderland Perspective Hannes Grandits Part I: Discussing, Implementing and Explaining a New Border (Region) Chapter 1. The Role of Bolshevism and Anti-Bolshevism in the Struggle for Western Hungary and Burgenland Ibolya Murber Chapter 2. The Interallied Commission for the Delimitation of the Boundary between Austria and Hungary, and the New International Order in Austria Michael Burri Chapter 3. Graz Geographers at the Birth of Burgenland: Robert Sieger and Marian Sidaritsch Ferenc Jankó Part II: Surviving during (Post-) World War I Economic Disintegration and the Polarization of Class Chapter 4. Surviving and Resisting the Wartime Order: Black-Market Economy in the Border Region of Wiener Neustadt during and after World War I Sabine Schmitner-Laszakovits Chapter 5. Polarization, Persistence and Political Mobilization of Class Belongings in Western Hungary /Burgenland after World War I (1919-22) Hannes Grandits Part III: Evolution of a New Elite Power Balance Chapter 6. Petite-Bourgeois Local Revolutions? Post-Habsburg Transitions, Democratization, Local Elites, and the Place of Western-Hungary/Burgenland Gábor Egry Chapter 7. The Birth of Burgenland and the End of the Esterházy-Estate Melinda Harlov-Csortán Part IV: Post-Imperial Solidification of Ethnic Categories Chapter 8.

From Mosaic to Pigeonhole: Frames, Loyalties, and Policies among the Croatian Speaking Population in Former Western Hungary/Burgenland Katharina Tyran Chapter 9. The Romani and Jewish Population in Burgenland at the Beginning of the Inter-War Period Ursula K. Mindler-Steiner Index.