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The Decline of Bismarck's European Order : Franco-Russian Relations 1875-1890 /
In an attempt to discover some of the underlying origins of World War I, the eminent diplomat and writer George Kennan focuses on a small sector of offstage events to show how they affected the drama at large long before the war even began. In the introduction to his book George Kennan tells us, &qu...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF PLATES
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- Introduction: The Approach
- Prologue: The Strange Events of 1875
- Part I: The Background
- 1 Russian Opinion and the War with Turkey
- 2 Franco-Russian Relations, 1879-1880
- 3 New Tsar-New Alliance
- 4 A Bit About Personalities
- Part II: The Bulgarian "Gdchis"
- 5 Complications in Bulgaria
- 6 The Unification of Bulgaria
- 7 The Aftermath of Unification
- 8 The Estrangement of 1886
- 9 Katkov's Attack
- 10 The End of Battenberg
- 11 The Break Repaired
- Part III: The Reinsurance Treaty: Giers vs. Katkov
- 12 France in the Spectrum of Russian Finance
- 13 Bismarck's Anxieties
- 14 The Tsar's Crisis of Decision
- 15 France and the Russo-German Crisis
- 16 Russian Winter, 1887
- 17 The Crisis Survived
- Part IV: The Demise of the Bismarckian System
- 18 The Aftermath of the Reinsurance Treaty
- 19 The Ferdinand Documents
- 20 The Deteriorating Three-Emperor Relationship
- 21 Financial and Military Stirrings
- 22 1889. The Russian Break with Germany
- Conclusions
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
- INDEX