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Britain and the Scramble for Africa

Was Russia ready for the First World War?

Jamie Murrin asks whether Russia’s strategic alliances and economic investments were sufficient to cope with the onset of war in 1914. Read this article alongside the one on Britain’s entry to the war, pp. 26–29

A train crossing the newly constructed Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia
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AQA AS Tsarist Russia, 1855–1917

AQA AS Russia and Germany, 1871–1914

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