ÎN CĂUTAREA REVOLUȚIEI: MAZZINI ȘI ROMÂNII

During and after the “Springtime of the Peoples”, the political and revolutionary movements have lightened the flame of change like never before. The defeat of 1848−1849 revolutions was a sign that the main revolutionary figures of Europe would need to reconsider their strategies and would demand to live as outcasts in those countries that didn’t intended capturing them, mainly in Great Britain and France. Some of the defeated revolutionaries shaked hand in 1850 in London and gave birth to the European Central Democratic Committee, led by Giuseppe Mazzini. The Romanian Forty-Eighters joined the Committee through Dumitru Brătianu and the Hungarian revolutionaries were invited to unite, mainly through Lajos Kossuth, but he had other plans. The Committee didn’t achived much, the Italo-Hungarian revolutionary union proved to be also a bluff and the collaboration between the Romanian Forty-Eighters and Mazzini had shown its limits, especially after the Crimean War, even though the latter became an advocate of the Romanian national cause.