dr. Horváth Sándor: A forradalom polgári arca Vas megyében (Szombathely, 1999)

Bevezető - Csorba László. 1848 – Magyarok a népek tavaszán

1848 - Magyarok a népek tavaszán 1848 - Hungarians and the peoples' spring 17 alapintézményei — kisebb-nagyobb történeti megszakításokkal — folyamatosan működnek napjainkig és rajtuk keresztül érvényesül a magyar polgárok beleszólása az őket érintő ügyek intézésébe. abolition of serfdom, equality before the law and general, equitable taxation became irreversible institutions. That is the main reason why Hungary's inhabitants can be said to have lived thereafter under a capitalist, bourgeois system instead of a feudal one. The Hungarian revolution took the country across a threshold that led to a new period. Even the advances that were suspended again under absolutism were not lost forever. After almost two decades of political struggle, Hungary managed to regain from Vienna its bourgeois, parliamentary system of state, in the Ausgleich of 1867. Since then, its basic institutions have operated, with shorter or longer breaks, right up to the present day, ensuring for Hungarian citizens a say in determining the affairs that affect them.