Abstract
In 1848 revolutions broke out almost simultaneously in Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Milan which toppled long-established reactionary regimes and attempted to institute political and social reforms. Historians referring to this period call it the ‘springtime of the nations’. Ultimately, these revolutions were crushed or gave way to even more sophisticated autocratic governments which were in many ways more repressive than the ones they replaced. Nevertheless, in their brief moment of victory these revolutions exposed some of the most glaring contradictions of their societies (most notably the growing, almost unbridgeable, gulf between the bourgeoisie and the newly emergent industrial working class), laying to rest the myth that Europe was moving towards a harmonious era of the golden mean.1
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Quart, L., Auster, A. (1984). The Sixties. In: American Film and Society since 1945. The Contemporary United States. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17569-7_4
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