Britain, Russia and the Road to the First World War: The Fateful Embassy of ... - Dr Marina Soroka - Google Books

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For much of the later nineteenth-century Britain regarded Russia as its main international rival, particularly as regarded the security of its colonial possessions in India. Yet, by 1907 Russia's political revolution, financial collapse and military defeat…