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Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx’s Daughter on Social Democracy's Prospects after the Reichstag Elections (February 26, 1890)
In the Reichstag elections of February 20, 1890, the Bismarckian “Cartel” of pro-government parties lost its majority, while the SPD celebrated a major victory. Writing from his London exile to the....
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Retrospective Judgment of a District Governor on the Failure of the Anti-Socialist Law (1925)
This excerpt is drawn from the 1925 memoirs of Baron Hans Hermann von Berlepsch (1843-1926),....
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Bismarck Tells the British Ambassador that Germany has Achieved its Legitimate Objectives (February 11, 1873)
The text below is an excerpt from a letter by Lord Odo Russell (1829-1884), Britain’s ambassador to Germany from 1872 to 1884, to the British Foreign Secretary Lord Granville. Russell was allegedly....
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Albrecht von Stosch to Count Alfred von Waldersee on Bismarck's Successor (January 30, 1890)
Bismarck's forced resignation as German chancellor on March 20, 1890, was preceded by furious....
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Hans Delbrück on Bismarck's Legacy (April 1890)
To many contemporaries Bismarck's resignation on March 20, 1890, constituted a momentous event; it certainly produced a flood of commentaries. In this extended analysis, published in the Preußische....
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Gustav Schmoller on the Social Question and the Prussian State (1874)
“The Social Question and the Prussian State” (1874) was published in a prestigious contemporary journal by the economics professor and co-founder of the Association for Social Policy Gustav Schmoller....
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Heinrich von Treitschke, "Socialism and its Patrons" (1874)
A leading kleindeutsch historian and university teacher, Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-1896)....
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Population Growth in Large Cities (1875-1910)
German cities experienced enormous growth during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine periods. The population of Berlin,....
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Franz Perrot’s "Era Articles" Attacking Bismarck’s Ministry, Liberals, and the Jews (June 29 - July 1, 1875)
Franz Perrot (1833-1891) was an antisemitic conservative writer who published a series of blockbuster essays in his party’s leading newspaper, the Neue Preussische (Kreuz-) Zeitung. They were....
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