![]() ![]() ![]() In February 1861, Alexander overrode the objections of Russia’s aristocracy to free the serfs from their state of feudal servitude. All three statesmen transformed their respective nations with acts that at the time were regarded as extremely radical. Beran puts the life and times of Abraham Lincoln on a parallel course with those of two other notable contemporaries: Tsar Alexander II of Russia and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of Prussia. Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871īy Michael Knox Beran, Free Press, New York, 2007, 496 pages, $30.Īmerican audiences tend to put the decade in which the Civil War took place in a vacuum, but as author Michael Knox Beran shows in Forge of Empires, the global stage witnessed several other far-reaching events in the 1860s that were perhaps just as significant. ![]()
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