The Revolutions of the 18 Thirties and 18 Forty Eight

Liberal leaders would talk about the 18 thirties and 18 forties as a time when the kind of comfortable and educated types who might be drawn into liberal political ideas mostly withdrew into abstract discussions on rature and philosophy. The free economic society was allowed to keep doing its business, just so long as it did not deviate from economic and scientific topics. There was simply no corresponding liberal movement in russia ready to mount a barricade. And one of the reasons they maybe didn't succeed in their mission was t hat they didn't call in the people to help them overthrow the state.