The revolutions of 1830 and 1848 were failures like many historians thought they were. One example of a revolution that failed was the Russian revolution of 1825. The liberalist revolutionaries wanted a constitutional reform of their conservative government. This revolution was a failure because Nicholas I and the Russian government completely crushed the revolution and killed almost everybody against them.
Another example of a failed revolution was the French revolution of 1848. The radical republic wanted to overthrow the current government. Their goals were to get the ruler Louis Phillipe out of power and bring somebody else in to help make new policies. This revolution was also a failure because they were able to get Louis Phillipe out of power, but the new ruler that came in essentially kept the exact same policies as before.
Finally, another example of a failed revolution was the Frankfurt assembly of 1848. German liberal nationalists wanted a constitution written to unite all of the German states into one unified country. The assembly offered a constitution to Frederick IV to rule a united Germany, but he rejected it. This revolution was a failure because the reform they were looking for only lasted one year and then hundreds of people were killed or imprisoned, and the rest fled Germany taking the last of the revolutionary ideas with them.
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