Rakúsko-Uhorsko

The article is an introduction to the current issue of Forum Historiae that was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency project "Continuity and Discontinuity of Political and Social Elites in Slovakia in the 19th and 20th Centuries". The editors provide a brief overview of the theoretical concepts that underlie the articles published in the issue; they introduce the main research questions and hypotheses the authors of the issue worked with and outline the main conclusions.

The article examines the Catholic answer to such modern challenges such as industrialisation, urban sprawl, the accelerated growth of the working class and migrations in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century. From the perspective of Social Catholicism, which is understood primarily as a collective social practice present in society in various forms, the article contributes to the debate around the secularisation thesis and the role of religion in modern society.

This article explores the phenomenon of the ‘Green Cadres' at the end of the First World War in Austria-Hungary, with a focus on events in western Slovakia 1918-1920. The Green Cadres were bands of army deserters and radicalized peasants who hid in the forests and mountains of the monarchy during the last year of the war and then violently attempted to topple the social-political order in many localities as the state collapsed.