| German Empire was a vital stage in German historical development. It made aunified German emerged in modern historical stage. It also made German politicalmodernization entering a new stage. The political modernization of German Empireobtained the certain achievements while it also manifested a kind of contradictorycharacteristics at the same time. It means that some factors and power which gaveimpetus to the development of German political modernization which also hinderedthe development of the political modernization as the historical advance. The leaderof political modernization also hindered the further advance of politicalmodernization.These characteristics mainly manifested in Junker, who driven the Empire'sunification and opened the Empire's modernization. But his conservative featuresbecame more and more evident. Although German Empire achieved universalsuffrage and party politics, the thorough parliamentary democracy still not obtained.The Empire retained the monarchy and its great power. These contradictorycharacteristics are designed by many factors, which include German geographicallocation, its geopolitical politics, the history of Germany long-term division, thecontinuation of the monarchy, statism, extreme nationalism, militarism and etc. Theeconomic and social prosperity in the German Empire period also gave the legality ofthe Empire. The features still influenced the Germany history even the GermanEmpire was collapsed. They caused the representative Constitution of Weimarrepublic, but also made the reverse side of the political modernization and led thecollapsed of the republic. The Nazi Reich was born at last. |
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