Effects of no Russian assistance during the Hungarian Revolution of the 1800's

What would happen if the Russians decided not to assist Franz Joseph during the Hungarian Revolution? Could the Austrians lose and would this cause other parts of the Empire to try their luck?
 
Perhaps the Russian Empire would take Galica , and Prussia would end up with Bohemia in the end? How plausible is that?
 
WEll everyone was all up in arms anyway. Revolts in the Empire were hard to maximize because the constituent parts hated each other. When Hungary revolted they claimed Serbia as part of their turf. But the Serbs didnt want any of it. Moreover, Silesia and Morovia were less active because the local revolutionaries could not find a way to incorpirated the ethnic Germans. I think if Russia did not help the revolts would just have taken a little longer to pan out. This might have had lasting implications for Piedemont and Venice who were at trying to throw off the Austrian yoke at the same time. I think Prussia was too pre-occupied with its own problems to gain anything.
 
Hungary would secede. Perhaps still united under the same Monarch with Austria but that's all...

Because back then, Austrian Army was actually defeatedlys everal times & Austria was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
 

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An united Germany, via the Prussian-led Erfurt Union... maybe a German-Russian War about that.
 
Depends on how stubborn Franz is. The Hapsburgs did in fact have sufficient military power to put down Hungary; what they did not have were forces to quell both Italy and Hungary. Leaving Italy alone and concentrating all of its forces in Hungary could have saved the empire at the expense of Italy, but then what was new for Austria? The Austria poodle, as mangy as its coat was and as toothless its bite was, simply refused to share during the 19th century and as a result, lost everything in the end. If it had let go of Italy in 48, it didn't have to kiss the czar's ass, wouldn't have worried about Napoleon III much, and could have partitioned Germany with Prussia or with Prussia and France. Best of all, there wouldn't have been the humiliating Dual Monarchy and then there might have been genuine political reform in the Hapsburg domains. Instead, the Magyars destroyed the empire Franz Joseph had made his life work to save with their petty obstructionism and vicious ethnocentrism.
 
Austrian troops had already taken Budapest before the Russians entered the war.

Magyar Nationalists had managed to alienate all the other groups in the Hungarian Kingdom, most notably the Croatians. The Austrians had already smacked down the Italians (Radetzky) and first line troops from there could be made available.

According to the history book I have here (A history of Eastern Europe - Crisis and change, by Bideleux and Jeffries):

"In the end the Magyars chose to surrender to Russian rather than Austrian force majeure in August 1849. But the Austrians bore the brunt of the campaign, incurring about 50,000 war deaths to the Russians' 543 (not counting 11,028 cholera victims). The Magyars also incurred about 50,000 war deaths."

This would seem to suggest the Austrians were quite capable of finishing the job themselves. Looking at the smackdown Savoy received in the same period, the Austrian army was obviously capable enough to perform against regular forces. The mostly irregular Magyar forces would have been at a further disadvantage.

Also, the long term viability of the Hungarian state would have been quite low: the Magyars seemed to do almost everything to antagonize the Croatians, Romanians, Slovaks etc.
 
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