Fin de siècle Vienna was a melting pot that had produced Gustav Mahler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Sigmund Freud. But when the empire's narrower national identities-Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs, and Austro-Germans-asserted themselves, the region descended into a paroxysm of violence and intolerance.
( Francis Fukuyama )
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