Dostevsky and the Great War of 18 Forty Eight

Despite nicholas's hostility to the revolutions, russia itself did not attempt to force its will upon the other great powers. So nicholas mostly watched from the side line with approval as prague and berlin and vienna and milan slowly came back under the hands of their rightful rulers. But in 18 forty nine austria could not reconquer hungary alone. They needed russian help. Now russia had already been sucked into the conflict on the eastern edges of hungary, but now they poured in by the hundreds of thousands. And that last pocket of revolutionary lava that had poured east from the initial eruption in paris the year before, finally hit a wall that was