Volume 26, Number 14 · September 27, 1979
The Legal Revolutionary
By A.J.P. Taylor
The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849
by Istvan Deak
Columbia University Press, 415 pp., $16.95
Historic Hungary was an exception to all the rules and never more so than in 1848, the great revolutionary year. Hungary was the only state in central Europe that had preserved its traditional constitution, though not without some interruptions. In 1848 the liberal program was carried through by ostensibly legal means with the consent of the Habsburg king-emperor. National sentiment did not need to be aroused. The Magyars were already a fully conscious nation, oblivious of the fact that they were a minority in their own country.
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