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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: Unit 3, Discussion 5: The Revolutions of 1848
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The Revolutions of 1848 in Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome were the last liberal national revolutions in Europe because they all failed, and because they all raised the specter of a new kind of revolution, revolution by the communist proletariat. In this podcast, you will prepare for the Unit 3, Discussion 5 assignment by understanding the causes and consequences of these events, as well as the meaning of the new ideas of Socialism and Communism that were birthed by them.
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Louis Blanc, leader of the Paris proletarians in the Revolution of 1848
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