1848

Question 1

Revolution in Vienna

Answer 1

Metternich kicked away+ slavic peoples start to bid for their own independence.
shoot of balance of powers in the German confederation (beginning of revolutions in the German-speaking area)

Question 2

revolution in Germany

Answer 2

• 2 parliaments (the Prussian National Assembly + Constituent National Assembly in Frankfurt)
• debate over greater or smaller Germany (the easier didn’t want to receive the coronation from an assembly)
• this revolution allowed for the creation of the German national conservatism movement

Question 3

Revolution in Bohemia+PanSlavism

Answer 3

• Independece movement led by Kossuth
• 1 year of independence where the panslavic congress is created
• defeated thanks to the internal divisions among slavs (with croatians rebelling against Hungarians)

Question 4

Revolution in France

Answer 4

• Provisional government (radical etc)

- election of Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 5

Causes for 1848

Answer 5

National self-determination
constitutional reforms
social question (rising poverty and unemployment)

Question 6

Benedict Anderson

Answer 6

imagined communities

Question 7

Renan

Answer 7

nations are a moral conscience

Question 8

Fejto

Answer 8

kossuth wasn’t able to integrate slavic minorities in Bohemia

Question 9

Fejto

Answer 9

kossuth wasn’t able to integrate slavic minorities in Bohemia

Question 10

Gramsci

Answer 10

Italy didn’t develop a national-popular coscniousness due to the presence of the Habsburg and of the Catholic Church

Question 11

wollstein

Answer 11

flaws of the German revolution: dilemma on the form of national unity

Question 12

Koselleck

Answer 12

1848-crisis of legitimacy of the ancient régime (and its desire to limit the power of the people and civil society)

Question 13

Sperber

Answer 13

1848: limits of the order of Vienna

Question 14

Smith

Answer 14

failure of Italian 1848 due to the king o Piedmont willing to support Austria and the pope against Mazzini’s radicalism