Beyond Prague: The Congress of the Slavs in 1848 and Its Echo within the Reach of the Habsburg Monarchy

Abstract

The return of the anniversary of an event, especially if it is a round year, always seems to be a good occasion to take a fresh look at historical events and bring them to the attention of a wider public, whether at the local or regional level, or on a supraregional or even supranational scale, depending on how vivid the memory is. The texts presented below are selected contributions to a conference entitled 175 Years Congress of the Slavs (1848–2023). History – Ideas – Commemoration that was organized at the site of the historic event in Prague. The Prague ‘Congress of the Slavs’ (from June 2 to 12, 1848) was one element in a chain of events that shook the order established by the European powers at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, beginning with the February Revolution in France and continuing to the suppression of the Hungarian independence movement in the summer of 1849.