sentences:  It established an authoritarian and corporatist regime, the Federal State of Austria, which is commonly known in German as the "Ständestaat" ("corporate state").According to the Fatherland Front this form of government and society implemented the social teaching of Pope Pius XI's 1931 encyclical "Quadragesimo anno".The Front banned and persecuted all its political opponents, including Communists, Social Democrats—who fought against it in a brief Civil War in February 1934—but also the Austrian Nazis who wanted Austria to join Germany.