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Rump state would be strongly opposed by Prussia & Austria, so for Alex it would be better to restore 1795 borders (with RE keeping just...
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Poland's political traditions were fundamentally incompatible with the Russian Empire, so there would always be a conflict even IF the...
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Sorry, but when your example being cited is Karl Marx the socialist (who had no access whatsoever to high levels of government and wrote...
Yesterday at 5:32 PM
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My concern is that it is not clear that you could easily halt the forces of the Prague Spring, that there might not be a sweet spot...
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Historically the action plan fraction of the Czechoslovakian party didn't determine the historical outcome: in a brutal way the...
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While János Kádár seems to have personally believed Dubček was still a reliable communist, he denounced the Czechoslovak reforms when in...
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I’ve just located an English translation of the action plan on marxists internet archive. The fraction of the party supporting the...
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If C16th Castille/Aragon/Portugal can convert Iberia to Catholicism, could a religious French monarchy do the same in the Maghreb in C19th?
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Iberia was Christianized 400 ad, several hundred years prior to the Moorish occupation. Iberia was then re- Christianized in stages as...
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If C16th Castille/Aragon/Portugal can convert Iberia to Catholicism, could a religious French monarchy do the same in the Maghreb in C19th?
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No, for many reasons. One, cultural attitudes shift over time; in the 16th century Catholics saw themselves as the One True Religion in...
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They even abandoned their native language pretty quickly and already by mid-19th century if not even earlier they were pretty...
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I suppose that, if China was under a dynasty that had unquestioned legitimacy in the 19th century, it might well have had more options...
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Given how Chinese settlement of Taiwan only really came about after the Dutch and the Spanish came along, and the Manchu only banned...
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