1848: Year of Revolution
In Our Time
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The Exhilaration of the European Revolution
Exhilaration is a very good way of describing it. It's a combination of exhilaration on the part of the insurgents, and a collective collapse of nerve on the parts of the regimes. For the past generation or more, Metanica had been telling anyone who would listen, that red revolution was just around the corner unless they were oppressed every sign of political dissent. And so there is a general feeling across Europe in the springtime of the peoples, that the spring had arrived both literally and metaphorically - and the old order had collapsed. This is a historical history as a travel tour, as well as everything else.
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