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R.A. Wolf: Queue in front of a food store in Vienna’s Rasumofskygasse, watercolour, 1917

An everyday sight in Vienna: queues in front of shops. The explosive mixture of aggressive passivity and need increased popular anger.

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    Strikes, revolutionary movements

    The transformation of production facilities for war work and the departure of the men to the front meant that women increasingly performed typical male jobs, in the armaments industry and elsewhere. They also had to feed their families and were thus the first to react to the increasingly precarious food situation and the extremely bad working conditions.

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    The situation in the hinterland

    In the fourth year of the war there was a widespread feeling of ‘burn-out’ in the Habsburg Monarchy, with the supply situation in a catastrophic state and the mood of the general population one of war-weariness and frustration. The initial euphoria was now long forgotten.