1. A LITTLE RUSSIAN ROULETTE.
- Author
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Soodalter, Ron
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VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901 , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,RUSSIAN naval history ,FOREIGN public opinion of the American Civil War, 1861-1865 ,FOREIGN relations of the United States -- 1861-1865 ,BRITISH foreign relations ,FRENCH foreign relations ,FRENCH history, 1848-1870 ,REIGN of Alexander II, Russia, 1855-1881 - Abstract
The article reports on the arrival of Imperial Russia's Atlantic Fleet in the U.S., which began with the arrival of the warship Oslyabya on September 11, 1863. Topics include political unrest in Russian-controlled Poland, foreign relations between Russia, the U.S., Great Britain, and France, Czar Alexander II and the Crimean War, and British and French foreign policies towards the Confederate States of America and the U.S.
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- 2017