326 | Ian Kershaw: The Personalities Who Built and Destroyed Modern Europe
The Realignment
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Great Men Theory of History Analysis
I prefer to concentrate on the impact of these individuals and each of these individuals did personally make in the conditions in which they came to power. I dispatched the notion of greatness in the first pages of the book because I think the term is actually indefinable in terms of political leadership it's also subject to change over time so we can't use the term greatness of a figure like Hitler or Stalin for example. We see then how the world that we've come to understand it although it's changed you know drastically before our eyes was forged by these individuals.
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