History 2404E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alexis De Tocqueville, Decembrist Revolt, Reform Act 1832
19 Nov 2018
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Lecture 8: the congress of vienna and european great power relations. 1815 they didn"t have a problem with cooperation: austria and metternich were the most influential country and political figure responsible for creating the post-napoleonic settlement (and therefore it reflected the interests of austria) In many ways austria was the weakest of the major powers (smaller in population than prussia) and were sub-divided among a range of ethnic groups: austria feared that it would get pushed around, especially by. Russia (ending the war as the most militarily-dominant country) who had not been defeated by napoleon and had been hostile to. Austria: metternich wanted to contain france as a counterweight to russian power. It took the combination of austria, britain, and france to stop russia from expanding to. Poland: austria gave up belgium to create a larger state (the netherlands) to oppose france.
