HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Italian Fascism, Alexander Kerensky, Nikita Khrushchev
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Carbonari; panslavism; giuseppe mazzini (1805-77); louis kossuth (1802-94); klemens von. Metternich (1773-1859); camillo di cavour (1810-61); giuseppe garibaldi (1807-82) Liberalism and nationalism developed simultaneously in europe in the 19th century. Note: especially after the napoleonic wars and the congress of vienna; nationalism took part in the revolutionary fervor; it is one of the great motivators of the european social and political system. Nationalism is like a religion a feeling/belief that you have; irrational; positive (modern, centralized. The belief that some nations are better than others is a natural fact; those with same religion, language, geography, ethnic origins should in some way rule over themselves as a nation state. It is a very efficient instrument for the creation of political policy. Problem: it is mutually exclusive; linguistic/religious/etc. groups were scattered across europe among other groups which caused instability in europe. The greatest stimulus to nationalism was the aftermath of the french revolution, napoleonic wars, and the congress of vienna.
