Between Russia and Germany: Foreign Office Dilemma on the Eve of the First World War

摘要

The article examines the views of the Foreign Office officials on the British relations with Russia and Germany before the First World War with regard to the emerging historiographical tendency to downplay the importance of the Anglo-German antagonism as one of the structural features of the international relations system and to regard the Anglo-German detente as a sign of the trend towards Great Power realignment.