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French fleet visit to Kronstadt (1891)
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Jul 1891 — A French squadron visits Russia’s naval base, and Tsar Alexander III stands bareheaded while a band plays the Marseillaise, the anthem of revolution. Thirteen months after Germany let the Reinsurance Treaty lapse, autocratic Russia and republican France are courting.
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- Alliance system before WWI (chapter 1 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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- Russian Revolution
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