Bismarck, Otto Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...of Prussia, and defended the privileges of his elite social class, the Junkers. As Prussian minister to the German diet...nationalism, Bismarck instituted a program of sweeping social reform. Between 1883 and 1887, despite violent opposition...