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What was the social demand for change in Hungary in early 1848? How did members of the Viennese aristocracy view Hungary? What impact did the initiatives of the reform era have on the later revolution? What was the structure of the social public sphere? How did the news reach the people? Without the Vienna Revolution, would there have been no Budapest? Wasn't the separation from the Habsburg dynasty, the abolition of the kingdom, the original aim of the revolution? Why did the German-speaking, financially disinterested Hungarian aristocracy, with its ties to Vienna, awaken to national consciousness? How did the different strata of society - the nobility, the bourgeoisie and the peasantry - come together? What was planned out of the revolution and what was carried by the current of events? Where did the youth of March come from, who were they? To what extent was Sándor Petőfi an important and well-known figure in the events at that time, and what was he interpreted by later interpretations for one reason or another? What is it that we know wrongly and pass on as a misconception about 15 March or about later events and their characters? Did the March youth toast with beer or wine? Did the Haynau really celebrate with beer? Who are the important figures of '48 who are undeservedly neglected in the politics of remembrance, but who deserve to be? What role did women play in the revolutionary events? What social discontent motivated the volunteers who joined the Home Army? What was the need that led to the Reconciliation? How did the perception of certain historical figures change after 1849? For example, how did Lajos Kossuth, who chose emigration and lived for an unprecedented 91 years? Is Artur Görgey's perception now in place? Should Ferenc Deák be more popular, or at least as popular, as Lajos Kossuth? What were the repercussions for the Habsburg Empire of the failed Hungarian War of Independence? Did the War of Independence win politically, in the long run? Was modern Hungary born in 1848? What do we not yet know about 1848 and 1849 that we would like to know? Do history lessons teach the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848/49 properly? How should we talk to young people about it so that it is interesting and important for them?

Csaba Katona, historian of the Hungarian National Archives, in InfoRadio's Aréna programme on 14.03.2024. The interviewer is Zsolt Herczeg. Podcast

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