Revolutions of 1848 in Britain and Russia / Concluding Remarks (Revolutions of 1848: Part 5)
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In the final segment of my lecture series on the Revolutions of 1848, I discuss why there was no violent revolutionary activity in Britain or Russia and also discuss the legacies of the Revolutions of 1848. In the mid-19th century, the British Parliament showed a modest openness to reform that was un-matched by the governments on the continent. Although the Chartist movement peaked in the 1840s, it never reached the point of threatening the viability of the government. Russia was another story. While the British held off revolution by passing modest reform legislation, Nicholas I of Russia so violently repressed the Decembrist Revolt in 1825 that the climate was not ripe for revolution even twenty years later. Russia would have its revolution in due time.
While the Revolutions of 1848 were short-term failures, they heavily influenced the unifications of Germany and Italy. Pragmatists took over these efforts and the so-called "Age of Metternich" yielded to the Age of Bismarck. Realpolitik - not consensus - would be the order of the day for European foreign policy in the late 19th century.
This is the last segment of my series on the Revolutions of 1848. Check out the whole thing here: • Revolutions of 1848
He makes these great videos, cares about his audience, knows all this great stuff about history...
Where does Matt Damon get the time?
Tom, You are one of the few "taking head" history presenters who is able to retain the attention and interest of his audience. I skipped quite a few "boring" ones before I got to yours. Very well packaged with the use of maps, graphics and paintings to substitute film recordings, which were not available in the subject period.
(A 50 something Dad supporting his children studies)
Thanks a bunch for the kind words, Tony! I'm glad I can help your children and constructively engage a parent at the same time!
+Tom Richey WTF man there is no Hungary, there was a nice little revolution against the Austrians.
@@huszardaniel4927 Technically you are right. We can speak about Hungary or Transleithania after 1867 but I believe that he used term Hungary for a better orientation.
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Amazing series! I'm in university and the readings I had just weren't sticking, they were just a wall of words jumping around everywhere. These videos have definitely helped me connect the dots and makes sense of the period. You present difficult concepts in a very easy to follow and entertaining way!
Thank you so much! You saved me so much from my confusing professor. Will be watching more of you~
Glad to help!
Hi, just wanted to say that i really enjoy your videos, and they are so helpful. Im a mature (30 something!) Degree student in England and your videos cover a lot of historical subjects that my Degree course in History requires! You also inspired me to research Elizabeth Fry with you video about the five pound note-and she was an amazing woman, instrumental in reforming prison conditions for women and children, introducing the idea of teaching skills to prisoners for use on release and even gave some inspiration to Florence Nightengale. Thank you for your videos and your website, your passion and dedication to sharing your knowledge of history is much appreciated!
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+Vikki Bilbey So glad I could inspire an Englishwoman to learn more about Elizabeth Fry! She definitely deserves to be more known than she is. Glad I can help a fellow thirty something learn some history. :D
Thank you very much Tom!
I was stuck on this chapter for the last four days and I was unable to solve the mystery of diplomatic relationship among states during revolution and with this series of videos I am almost done. :-)
I appreciate your work.
excellent overview of the 1848 revolutions - this makes the other material i've heard and read much less confusing and way more contextualized. would recommend you start here!
Thanks so much for your fun and informative videos! You are the only reason I am getting through my online Western Civilization course (college level btw). Our professors assign huge chunks of text filled with nothing but names, dates and places. No video lectures...ever. You make sense of the mega data!
PS Wish I still lived in SC so my soon to be high school boys could be in your class!
This may be a bit late but thank you for these videos.
It’s never too late to convey gratitude. You’re quite welcome!
Thank you so much . Your videos are really helpful for getting a perspective on history. God Bless you Sir.
Thanks Tom, thoroughly enjoyable!!
Please do a video on 1848 in Denmark.
Although we didn't have a revolution or even an attempted one in 1848, the British people shared many of the same grievances as those across Europe. The revolutions mostly sought to improve living conditions, settle nationalist questions and fix government deficiencies. So while we were seeing progress prior hand, the electorate was contained, the rise of industrialism led to dangerous working conditions, and there was resentment in the Celtic nations over the way Westminster was running things; in fact, Ireland did join in in 1848 with the young Ireland movement. But a few years earlier, an Irishman and leader of the Chartist movement Feargus O'Connor was elected to Commons and promptly began demanding change. Nothing came about of this, though, and after catching wind of what had happened in France, the Chartists saw their chance. O'Connor arranged for a huge march to carry a petition to Parliament. Organisers claimed to have garnered 5 million signatures, which for a country with 26 million people was quite a lot. The government knew that the moment this petition was presented was when the danger of revolution would be at its greatest, and they brought in the army and hired 100000 special constables to patrol the planned route. But the march never happened. You'll never guess why. It wasn't muskets or truncheons that stopped them, it was the rain. You see, rights and reforms were important, but no one wanted to fight for them whilst wet. And with the coming of the rain, the revolutionaries just simply went home. The petition was delivered to Parliament by a couple of Chartists and was promptly ignored. Turns out, most of the signatures had been forgeries and the Chartist movement was so thoroughly embarrassed that it was never able to recover. The chance for revolution was gone, but in the end, most of the Chartist demands would be implemented eventually.
Tom Richey, I'd like for you to know you are pretty my my teacher in AP EURO. My teacher literally bases a solid 1/3 of his assignments on purely notes on your videos. In fact, this video series in one of them. Thank you for being my teacher for an approximate semester and can't wait to watch moe of your videos in class! Ps. My history teacher's name is Mr.Fairbanks if you want to shout him out in your next video, maybe about nationalism in the late 1800's?
One thing missing from this lecture series: Why did ALL those revolutions happen at the same year? Was there a collapse of Metternich's negotiations that sparked all those revolutions?
Thank you good sir for the lesson helped me in my course :D
You're very welcome! I'm always glad to help.
great job of explaining, but i miss the revolt of prauge. I says that the czech had I long democratic tradition, that seems to be from this revolution, but its hard to find any concrete evedence. anyways that would explain some of why czechoslovakia stayed democratic during the interwar period.
If someone knows any good scources for that please reply
I'm here looking up as much information as possible-trying to finish my history project, and I get this discount Matt Damon with a southern accent.
I'm finished with AP Euro but I will keep watching these videos. Knowing history makes you a well rounded person and fun to have conversations with. I think the major problem in AP Euro classes is that students are urged to memorize as many specific details as they can. This way, they don't learn critical relationships and concepts throughout history. Instead of learning how to discuss a certain matter (such as the French Revolution) most students can only tell you when it started and who was involved in it (Jacobins, Girondists, Robespierre, Napoleon, etc..). I also think the AP exam is unfair. 55 minutes for 80 VERY specific questions is not enough. And the essays are very specific too, this is simply too much for a student to actually learn something, not just for an exam. Anyway, great vids I'm glad I subscribed.
You're exactly the kind of audience someone in my position craves and I'm glad I've earned your continued subscription! The new exam takes effect this year and while I have some reservations about it, maybe at least some of the changes will be for the best.
Yes, I don't usually criticize exams but I have suspicions regarding the terms of this AP Exam. I wonder if college students have the same time to take the test...
One classic cause of the Revolutions of 1848 that I have heard is that of "rising expectations". The improved economies produced by the early part of the second industrial revolution and the example of the United States, British reforms and the Latin American liberation movement inspired the revolutionist. What do you think. Of course your explanations are more than adequate.
I'd really like to see a lecture about Russian revolution, couldn't find a video browsing your channel
The best explanation of XIX century Russia is Ilya Repin's paints. There you can find the Intelligentsia and its sons (and daughters) in the 1870s. The "Narodniki" are labeled as "The Revolutionary series" in the Tretyakov Gallery. I have analyzed those paintings an explained in words Repin´s scenes in: "Unexpected Return", "Refusal of Confession" and "Secret Meeting".
Traditional historians (British&French) see no revolutionary movement worth mentioning in Russia until Marxism arrived and took over as the main option in the 1880s-1890s
Tom, as a first year history student at the university of Louvain, thank you for this upload. The classes of the professors are complete shite and this was a hard part to learn. Thanks man!
Has anyone told you that you look like Matt Damon? LOL
+Christine Wan Yeah... about twice a week for the last 18 years!
Thank you, from Norway!
Yay History with Matt Damo- I mean Tom Richley.
Love your video
When you say "generally failed" did any of the Revolutions of 1848 succeed? Thanks and great series!
Those in Denmark and Switzerland succeeded.
Thank you, you saved me 3 hours of reading
Thank you so much.........to have a clear understanding of where politics are heading, history is relevant for contemplation of prospect
nice video :D
In your metaphor winter didn't come to Russia XDXD
Coincidentally the British were in the process of starving out the Irish people during the famine of 1848.
1 million died of hunger, although it was caused by a potato blight the food was being shipped out of Belfast to feed the British Military.
The population was halved from 8 to 4 million which was the beginning of the Irish diaspora.
I thought this would be worth mentioning here.
Interesting that Europe was experiencing simultaneous revolutions in the same year the Communist Manifesto was published.
By the way, what's the bumper music?
Did iberia have any revolutions?
you should do a comparison of game of thrones and medieval europe!
You got it wrong Bismark was for keeping the peace and keeping Germany out of the race for colonies and empire. He was for a balance of power to keep France isolated. He wanted an isolate France that could find no allies to revenge its defeat of 1871. Only after his dismissal as Prime Minister, does Germany embark on a race for empire and colonies and direcly t clash with the major European powers primarily Great Britain rh
I really like watching your videos just for the sake of learning... and all that kind of stuff. hahahhaahah nice videos
thx
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Universal suffrage was not enacted in Britain until 1928, when Women were given the right to vote on the same terms as men (you said "later in the Century", implying women could vote in the 19th Century.
Nice video though. :)
Yeah... Whatever I was saying, likely meant "manhood" suffrage in the context of what the Chartists were asking for. I may need to add an annotation to clarify.
Tom Richey Okay. Thought thank you for making your videos, I'm from Australia and I watch them. ;)
Tom Richey The reason why people rebel is because of starvation. The French and Russian revolution started essentially because the people were desperately hunger due to famine caused by crop failures. In France the peasantary thought the aristocrats were hoarding grain... In Russia their was famine due to the mismanagement of the economy. People simply were not paid hence starvation and subsequently revolt and the seizure of grain...
People have this romantic notion that people fight for universal suffrage or political freedoms etc, it's simply not true...
In Britain there is a tradition of democratic reform through a representative parliament. There is no need for revolutionary blustery. We can simply vote for change. We are the oldest democracy in the world The 3 estates of monarchy, Lords and commons cannot rule separately from each other. It a natural check and balance... Its very resilient.
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I thought Nicholas hanged the Decembrists at dawn where nobody could see so that they would not become martyrs to the cause...
what happened to Ottoman Empire?
Nothing of note, but this does fall into the timeframe of the Tanzimat reforms. Ottomans trying to Westernize but the wave of Liberalism never really hit the Ottomans. Mostly just the same ethnic conflicts they've had for centuries. Biggest change is that the Christian minority is now far more educated and wealthy than the Muslim majority, creating a few issues but, again, nothing historical.
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Why dont you talk about the hungarian revolutions the Austro Hungarian empire was made by the revolution of 1848 in hungary
Russia was too oppressive and Britain wasn't repressive enough
One of the reasons Britain didn't have a revolution is it was illegal to even imagine the Monarchy being dissolved and was punishable by death/life imprisonment/deportation to Australia
You are lacking in your reasoning for revolts, the Jacobins, Templar Rites and Carbonari all hated the Catholic Church and wanted revenge.
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