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‘The comparion between Cavour’s and Bismark’s achievements reveals ‘striking points of resemblance and no less striking points of dissimilarity.’ Comment in about 200 words.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Nation-State System

Cavour and Bismarck stand as the two supreme practitioners of nineteenth-century state-building, yet their statecraft diverged as much as it converged.

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