Szabad György: Hungarian political trends between the revolution the compromise, 1849-1867 - Studia historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 128. (Budapest, 1977)

Oy. Szabad HUNGARIAN POLITICAL TRENDS BETWEEN THE REVOLUTION AND THE COMPROMISE (1849-1867) (Studia Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 128) The author sets out to show why it was that — the lessons of 1848-49 notwithstanding — 1867 saw the making not of a compact among Hungary’s peoples, but of the Compromise between Hun­gary’s political leaders and the Habsburgs. György Szabad presents a wealth of source material to illustrate the reactions in Hungary to the defeat of the revolution, to Habsburg oppression and absolutism, and gives a fine picture of what it was that the leaders of the major political trends hoped to achieve. He finds the forces working for an independent, democratic Hun­gary — one founded on the co­operation of all the country’s peoples — to have been much more significant than is generally supposed, and concludes that those working for the Compromise met with much stronger opposition than historians so far have allowed. Their success, he argues, was by no means independent of the advantages that a modified Habs­burg absolutism guaranteed them in an anti-democratically restricted political forum. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ BUDAPEST

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