Question

how were the conservative forces able to suppress liberal movement

Answer 1

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1. Around 1848, poor, unemployed, starving peasants and workers in many European countries revolted, as also the educated middle classes.

2. With revolts in almost every sections of the society, it was difficult for the monarchs to control them.

3. Though conservative forces were able to suppress such liberal movements in 1848, they could not restore the old order and get back the absolute powers that they enjoyed prior to this.

4. By this time, the monarch in several parts of Europe had begun to realize that the best way to deal with the popular uprisings was by way of concessions to the liberal-nationalist revolutionaries.

5. In the years after 1848, the autocratic monarchies of Central and Eastern Europe began to introduce the changes that had already taken place in Western Europe before 1815 like serfdom and bonded labour getting abolished in Habsburg dominions and in Russia

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