The July Crisis and the Outbreak of WWI on Cultural Magazines of that Time: A Comparison between Italy and Austria-Hungary.

The purpose of the present contribution is to show and compare the debate which took place among intellectuals on some cultural magazines during the weeks between the death of Franz Ferdinand on 28th June 1914 and the first week of August 1914, as the war reached almost every European country. The cultural magazines analyzed, compared and presented during the July Crisis of 1914 are: La Voce and L’Unità-problemi della vita italiana, which form the Italian part of the contribution; Der Brenner and Die Fackel stand for the Austrian side; Nyugat represents the Hungarian part of the contribution. The present item focuses on comparing the needs pointed out and the opinions expressed by intellectuals of the time during the July Crisis on the above mentioned cultural magazines.