HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Zemstvo, Emancipation Proclamation, Autocracy
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Nation building german unification and austria and russia. Social ppl in dif classes expressing desires for beter rep and edu. Poliical representaion, parliament forced revoluions, many of them naionalists. Western europe social, economic, and poliical modernizaion. Eastern europe slower paced social and economic, delayed poliical modernizaion. Changing forms of gov republics (italy, france), consituional monarchy england); empire (in germany) Representaive governments (everywhere except russia and otoman empire) Result progress at a slower pace, reform, and eventually revoluion (in 1917) Frankfurt parl, professors" parl, parl of uniicaion fail. Many of radicals arrested or exiled, or escape to us. Older, feudal, militarisic elite brought back sill some liberal ideas. Middle class more or less made peace w/ situaion beneited with geing table scraps . Learned idealism not enough to succeed in poliics and get unity. Uniicaion not work of democrats forged by blood and iron (war) Before 1866 germ as a poliical state didn"t exist fed diet of the fed germ confederaion.