Freedom and OrganizationWritten by one of the twentieth century’s most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bertrand Russell’s major work on political history. It traces the main causes of political change during a period of one hundred years, which he argues were predominantly influenced by three major elements – economic technique, political theory and certain significant individuals. In the witty, approachable style that has made Bertrand Russell’s works so revered, he explores in detail the major forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century. |
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... less harm than many men of impeccable rectitude. The Emperor Alexander, who was his own foreign minister, was quite a match for these able men. Metternich, Castlereagh, and Talleyrand all unsuccessfully tried to influence him; the King ...
... less harm than many men of impeccable rectitude. The Emperor Alexander, who was his own foreign minister, was quite a match for these able men. Metternich, Castlereagh, and Talleyrand all unsuccessfully tried to influence him; the King ...
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... less dutiful than as a grandson. After such a training, he need not fear to be hoodwinked by either Metternich or Talleyrand. From a scholastic point of view, Alexander's education was much better than that of most princes. In the ...
... less dutiful than as a grandson. After such a training, he need not fear to be hoodwinked by either Metternich or Talleyrand. From a scholastic point of view, Alexander's education was much better than that of most princes. In the ...
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... less generous in matters nearer home, such as Poland. But these reflections were made only by the initiated, and did not affect the warmth of popular demonstrations. The territorial questions to be decided at the Congress of Vienna were ...
... less generous in matters nearer home, such as Poland. But these reflections were made only by the initiated, and did not affect the warmth of popular demonstrations. The territorial questions to be decided at the Congress of Vienna were ...
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... less of Poland than he had claimed, and Prussia got only half of Saxony, the other half being left to the legitimate King. This compromise was only reached after Napoleon's return from Elba compelled the Powers to compose their ...
... less of Poland than he had claimed, and Prussia got only half of Saxony, the other half being left to the legitimate King. This compromise was only reached after Napoleon's return from Elba compelled the Powers to compose their ...
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... less halfhearted champion of a new principle, that of nationality, which appeared to the older diplomats to be full of revolutionary danger. It cannot be said that the older diplomats were wrong. What Talleyrand calls the “Jacobinism ...
... less halfhearted champion of a new principle, that of nationality, which appeared to the older diplomats to be full of revolutionary danger. It cannot be said that the older diplomats were wrong. What Talleyrand calls the “Jacobinism ...
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