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Why Did Revolutions Break Out so Widely Across Europe in 1848 and Why Did They Fail? The revolutions of 1848 were born from the legacy of peasant grievances and the appalling conditions of the urban working classes, honed to a peak by the agricultural and financial crises of the two previous years. At the same time, the liberal and inexperienced middle-classes all over Europe saw this as their opportunity to gain more political power. The sheer variety of short-term triggers: the collapse of the French stock market, and the resignation of Metternich on 13 March, begins to explain the failure of these uprisings. These different reasons illustrate the divisions between groups that meant that none could fulfil its aims; the Bourgeoisie were too small a group to gain their political concessions, while the workers lacked a true leader to deliver them better conditions. In the end, as the rebellions got out...

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