AHC/WI: Austria-Hungary collapses internally

Rex Mundi

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With a POD after 1867, can the Austro-Hungarian empire fall apart due to internal revolts or political maneuvering? Basically, I want the Habsburg dual monarchy to disolve under domestic pressure rather than having its collapse be precipitated by a European war.
 
It would fit rather in post-1900, but have Franz Ferdinand not be shot in 1914, be crowned as Emperor in Vienna in 1916 and refuse to be crowned as Hungarian King, to keep all option open for either an unitarian state or an additional Bohemian-Moravian-Slovakian or an Craoatian-Dalmatian-Bosnian imperial part or a Popovici solution. The Magyar magnats are furious, other groups might be much more positive.
You will not get an immediate full-scale civil war, but domestic troubles, widespread tax boycot and ethnic unrest might spin out of control. Plus, the French, the Italians, the Germans and the Russians (plus Serbians) will all have there own agendas ans try to influence factions inside the monarchy.
 
Dissolution would run the risk of a wider war because nobody will be able to agree on how the country should be split up, whether certain territories should be allowed to be annexed by other nations and whether certain borders favor competing German or Russian interests. The chaos of the situation would make things worse.
 
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