Practice question · True or false
The revolutions of 1848 achieved nothing that outlasted their suppression.
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- Ask what happened to the peasantry of central Europe in September 1848.
- One social change was never reversed even after the political restorations.
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False
Why
False. Serfdom was abolished in the Habsburg lands in September 1848 and never reimposed, which transformed the legal position of the largest peasant population in central Europe. The political revolutions failed almost everywhere; the social one in the countryside did not.
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