"The peasants of central Europe also had their social discontents, particularly in Austria where they still lived under the restrictions of a decaying feudalism. The emancipation of the Austrian peasants was one of the few positive and lasting achievements of the revolution."
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A. J. P. Taylor, Revolutions and Revolutionaries (1981), p. 95
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