ABSTRACT
When the anti-war socialist Friedrich Adler assassinated Count Karl Stürgkh, the dictatorial Austrian prime minister, on October 21, 1916, he signaled the coming of a new, post-imperial era for the Austrian Social Democratic Workers’ Party. The long-reigning Habsburg monarchy would soon cease to exist, and the chaotic violence of the First World War had vanquished whatever imperial allegiance remained in the party’s younger members.
