ABSTRACT
The First World War had dramatic political consequences in the South Slav lands. It was Princip’s revolver shots, himself a Bosnian Slav, whose repercussions had set in violent motion not only the Balkans and almost all Europe, but eventually nearly every continent. But Princip’s action was only one symptom of the acute state of tension which had arisen in the Hapsburg Empire, tension which was political in its expression, but of which the basis was partly racial and cultural rivalries and, less obviously, economic and social inequilibrium.
