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The bourgeois “revolution” of 1848 is repeatedly invoked as a historical event to enrich various historical narratives. While its 175th anniversary was celebrated in Germany in 2023 under the slogan “democracy” * the popular celebration in Austria was relatively quiet. The year 1848 represents all the contradictions that still characterize bourgeois modernity: what is the meaning of the slogans “liberty” and “equality” in light of the obvious differences between social classes, nationalities, races, or in relation to relations between the sexes? Was the “world of freedom” really intended to bless “the whole world,” as the “stormy year of 1848” was later declared to be? Gabriela Hauch has been Professor of Modern History/Women's and Gender History at the University of Vienna since 2011; She is co-editor of the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies (ÖZG) and L'Homme, a European feminist history journal. She has published numerous publications on gender and Austrian history since the French Revolution. She is currently working on a history of the left in Austria, using the Strasser family (1870-1970) as a case study. She published, together with Helmut Conrad, “One Hundred Years of Red Vienna” with Pecus Verlag in 2019, and “We Wished to Make the Whole World Happy” as part of the Vienna Lecture Series in 2024.