This week we close our mini-saga on the Revolutions of 1848. Will the Springtime of the Peoples blossom into a flower of democracy, or be smothered by the winter of absolutism? Let's find out together, shall we?

Sources:

Rapport, Michael. 1848: Year of Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2010.

Schjerve, Rosita Rindler. Diglossia and Power: Language Policies and Practice in the 19th Century Habsburg Empire.Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

A 12 pont, avagy „Mit kíván a magyar nemzet. https://marcius15.kormany.hu/a-12-pont-tortenete-2012

Leroux, Pierre. Individualism and Socialism.https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/pierre-leroux-individualism-and-socialism-part-1/

People’s Charter of 1838. https://www.marxists.org/history/england/chartists/peoples-charter.htm

Sophie of Bavaria: The Only Man at Court. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/sophie-of-bavaria/sophie-of-bavaria-the-only-man-at-court/

Verfassung des Deutsches Reiches oder Frankfurter Reichsverfassung (Constitution of the German Reich or the Frankfurt Reich Constitution). 1849. http://www.documentarchiv.de/nzjh/verfdr1848.htm

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