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10.11- War and Peace

Revolutions

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The Life of Alexander the Great

Alexander led russia through an age where the empire itself faced a constant identity crisis, switching friends and enemies every few years. Alexander's ministerial reforms in early nineteenth century would prove to be the at least indirect beginning of most of the government departments that govern russia to this very day. Some s he favored enlightened idealism, other times a devout christianity. Sometimes he was expansionis, sometimes he was closed up and defensive. In short order, he became convinced that he actually was the personal saviour of europe.

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