Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0928 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vienna, Prague, Budapest: The Habsburg Empire Near Collapse
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The idea
News from Paris reached Vienna by telegraph, and crowds forced Metternich, dominant since eighteen fifteen, to resign and flee, the witness's account. Peasants demanded the end of feudal dues, workers wages, liberals a constitution, and nationalists in Prague and Budapest demanded nations.
In practice
One empire, four demands, no army yet ready.
Where people slip
Hungary's rising is the witness's Hungarian Revolution of eighteen forty-eight.
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