Meanings
- uncountablethe act or process of making Austrian.
The acceleration of revolutions across Eastern Europe during the winter of 1989 ushered in Austrianization as a possible mode of transforming the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe.
1995, Richard Ned Lebow, Thomas Risse-Kappen, International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 1552 more examples
The centralization and Austrianization of Bukovina and other eastern regions imposed changes on all spheres of life, and thereby created pseudo-Viennese models in places such as Bukovina, Galicia, and Slovenia.
2001, Modern Austrian Literature, page 19(A telling exception to the general rule was the Austrian half of the Habsburg Empire where, for a variety of reasons, no comparable process of Austrianization ever quite took hold.)
2014, Willard Sunderland, The Baron's Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution, Cornell University Press, →ISBN
Origin
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