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Britain and the Last Tsar: British Policy and Russia, 1894-1917
Britain and the Last Tsar British Policy and Russia 1894-1917 Author:Keith Neilson Britain and the Last Tsar is a fundamental re-interpretation of British foreign and defense policy before the First World War. The currect orthodoxy asserts that the rise of an aggressive and powerful Germanyforced Britain--a declining power--to abandon her traditional policy of avoiding alliances and to enter into alliance with Japan (1902), Fr... more »ance (1904), and Russia (1907) in order to contain the German menace. In a controversial rejection of this theory, Keith Neilson argues that Britain was the pre-eminent world power in 1914 and that Russia, not Germany, was the principal long-term threat to Britain's global position.« less