While ideological differences between the bourgeois French a
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
While ideological differences between the bourgeois French and the reactionary czarist regime slowed this drift for a while, the retirement of Bismarck in 1890 and the more threatening movements of Wilhelm II’s government clinched the issue. By 1894, the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy had been balanced by the Franco-Russian Dual Alliance, a political and military commitment which would last as long as the Triple Alliance did.176 In more ways than one, this new development appeared to stabilize the European scene.
chapter: Alliances and the Drift to War, 1890–1914