How to Save a Dying Empire? The Project of the Unites States of Greater Austria

Austria-Hungary. Entering the new twentieth century, this empire was one of the most paradoxical states on the globe. Once a great power that stood at the origins of the European order after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Habsburg monarchy was now in deep stagnation, unable to cope with the growth of national consciousness and the separatist sentiments of its peoples.
Was it possible to save the empire from destruction? One of the possible options became known to the Austrian public at the beginning of the 20th century and proposed a radical reorganization of the country into a full-fledged federation with the equal rights of all its peoples. This ambitious project, which had the support of even the heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, will go down in history under the name of the United States of Greater Austria.