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The Habsburgs and the Hungarian Problem, 1790–1848

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R.J.W. Evans
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ON 4 MARCH 1848 Hungarians were excitedly debating the devastating criticisms of their country's rulers pronounced before assembled members of the diet the previous day by the popular tribune, Lajos Kossuth, the culmination of a campaign of agitation which stretched back a decade and more. Kossuth called for a constitutional transformation, with a responsible ministry, full legal equality, and the abolition of all privilege. The following month his programme was conceded wholesale by the authorities, under pressure from the sans-culottes of Budapest, and prostrate before their own Viennese revolution—for Kossuth's speech had played a major part in unseating Metternich there. Six months later power passed to a fully secessionist Hungarian regime, in which Kossuth enjoyed near-dictatorial sway. The ensuing civil war, during which the dynasty was declared deposed, took a further year to contain; its outcome appeared to be a complete breakdown of mutual confidence between king and country.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 39 , December 1989 , pp. 41 - 62
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30 These papers are in OL P 1975. They have an intrinsic interest which I hope to be able to exploit more fully elsewhere.

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37 Much evidence in Horvath, M., Az ipar és kereskedés története Magyarországon (Buda, 1840), 321Google Scholarff. The two 1840 laws, which must be far the longest in the annals of the Hungarian diet, are printed in Magyar törvénytár: 1836–68 évi Törvénycikkek, ed. Markus, D. et al. . (Budapest, 1896), 109–45, 160–74Google Scholar; Wirkner, , Erlebnisse, 113ffGoogle Scholar.

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42 The bibliography on Szechenyi is enormous, and I cannot begin to do justice to it here. A very helpful introduction in English to his earlier career is Barany, G., Stephen Szechenyi and the Awakening of Hungarian Nationalism, 1791–1841 (Princeton, 1968)Google Scholar. The classic account of Szechenyi as reform conservative is Gy. Szekfὄ, , Három nemzedék. Egy hanyallo kor története (2nd edn., Budapest, 1922), 59Google Scholarff. Perceptive contemporary observers are Horváth, , Huszonöt év, i. 194Google Scholarff.; Zs. Kemény, , ‘Gróf Széchenyi István’, in Összes muvei, vol. ix, ed. Gyulai, P. (Budapest, 1907), 143–303Google Scholar; and, in English, Paget, J., Hungary and Transylvania (2 vols., London, 1839), i. 204–28Google Scholar.

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