Founded in 1965 by R. John Rath, the Austrian History Yearbook remains the only English-language journal devoted to the history of the territories in Central Europe that were formerly under Habsburg rule and now comprise the modern states of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, and parts of Italy, Poland, Ukraine, and Romania. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the search for stability in the former East bloc has brought an upsurge of interest in the region's Habsburg heritage. Typically, each issue of the Yearbook contains five to six fully peer-reviewed articles, a forum on an important historical issue, a review article, and 30 to 40 book reviews.