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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

Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PROLOGUE -- I. THE IMMEDIATE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- II. PERSONALITIES -- III. FIRST REACTIONS -- IV. THE SOVIET APPROACH TO AN ARMISTICE -- V. FIRST PROBLEMS OF "CONTACT" WITH THE SOVIET AUTHORITIES -- VI. ALLIED DELIBERATIONS IN PARIS -- VII. WILSON AND THE WAR AIMS -- VIII. LANSING AND THE RECOGNITION PROBLEM -- IX. THE PROBLEM OF ANTI-BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA -- X. THE KALPASHNIKOV AFFAIR -- XI. THE FIRST BREST-LITOVSK CRISIS -- XII. THE FOURTEEN POINTS -- XIII. SIBERIA—THE BACKGROUND -- XIV. SIBERIA—THE FIRST EXCHANGES -- XV. JAPAN ASKS FOR A FREE HAND -- XVI. THE DIAMANDI INCIDENT -- XVII. THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY -- XVIII. BREST-LITOVSK AND THE AMERICANS -- XIX. WASHINGTON AND THE PROBLEM OF "CONTACTS" -- XX. COMPLICATIONS IN PETROGRAD -- XXI. THE BREAKUP IN PETROGRAD -- XXII. THE SISSON PAPERS -- XXIII. SIBERIA AND THE FINAL BREST-LITOVSK CRISIS -- XXIV. ROBINS AND RATIFICATION -- APPENDIX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

George F. Kennan: Impressionen eines Lebens. Aus dem Englischen von Hermann Kusterer. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf, Wien, New York 1990. 384 Seiten, 48,- DM

An analysis of the Russian-French alliance of 1894 and what went wrong in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century