Sleeping on a Volcano
Personal European views on the legacy of 1848. For Poland, despite its fervent nationalist movement, the spring of 1848 followed too closely the bloodshed of its own peasant uprising of 1846, when thousands of Polish aristocrats were massacred.
Hubert Zawadzki explains how, despite resisting a full-scale revolution in 1848, Polish radicals came to lead revolts in other countries across Europe.