AHC/WI: Successful Revolutions of 1848?

By "successful" I mean to about the level of the Arab Spring--that is, a few, perhaps four or five, countries of reasonably large European importance where the revolutionaries create lasting change, or otherwise achieve more or less the sum of their goals, possibly after a lengthy civil war. OTL, the only permanent changes were in marginal countries (Switzerland, Denmark) with the exception of France (where the Second Empire stemmed from the creation of the Second Republic in 1848), at least to my knowledge.

So, what would it take? What would the side effects be?
 
I believe a now banned member made a timeline about this. Also one thing I have to mention is how "four or five" countries having it succeed would likely mean they all succeed. I mean 1848 in Germany was very much linked with pan-germanism, same with Italy. Once you have Italy and Germany united the number of nations that could have failed revolutions is small.
 

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Well you could have Prussia become more liberal Pre Revolution. This causes the holy alliacne to break apart sooner (in name it will stil exist though). Once the revolution comes around Prussia will stay neutral while Austria leads the Bund army to put down the rebellion. Since the southern German states were more liberal anyway we can have Baden doing the same Prussia does. In the end we have a Germany more evenly divided between conservative and liberal powers. Since Austria needs more time putting down the German rebellions it has to negotiate a form of agreement with the Hungarians. The slavs will not be happy about this, but for the time the Hungarians have the upperhand. Once the Russians intervene the Hungarians are still crushed, but some reforms are left in place. Italians should get crushed as IOTL. End result: We have the Deutsche Bund with more liberal member states and Austria Hungary slightly more liberal.
Teh revolution reaching Russia is ASB and England was already the most liberal state in Europe at the time. Spain and Portugal are to reperessive to really allow any change.
 
Teh revolution reaching Russia is ASB and England was already the most liberal state in Europe at the time. Spain and Portugal are to reperessive to really allow any change.

Britain may have been more liberal but without the Great Reform act they would have had a chartist revolution.
 
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