During his long reign, some of the methods that Franz Josef used to maintain his Habsburg empire were:
1. He crushed a revolt by his Hungarian subjects and executed their leaders.
2. He split his empire into Austrian and Hungarian parts, and set up a parliament in Budapest.
<h3>What did Franz Josef do?</h3>
Franz Josef was a Habsburg emperor who was responsible for enlarging it and making it a very large empire. To do this, he needed to be ruthless sometimes.
One such time was when he crushed a revolt by the Hungarians and then killed their leaders as punishment. He then split the empire into the Austrian and Hungarian parts leading the empire being called the Austria - Hungary empire.
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps established during Joseph Stalin's long reign as dictator of the Soviet Union. The word “Gulag” is an acronym for Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration
