The franco-russian alliance (1891-1894) and the liberal push to czarist Russia

The article is a brief excursus on the triggers of the Franco-Russian alliance. The defensive agreement between France and Russia made possible for both to overcome an international isolation. But, especially for Russia, the alliance resulted in a general modernisation, as well as a beginning of a constituent institutionalisation looked upon favourably by the exponents of Russian political liberalism, whose march for freedom would have an apotheosis in the two-year period between 1905 and 1907. The Franco-Russian alliance dissolved within the interweaving of war and revolution known to recent historiography as the continuum of crisis of mobilization and violence. FrancoRussian’s unresolved ambiguity among defensive, economic and cultural-ideological principles led on both sides to an irreconcilable coexistence of patriotic and liberal thrusts, particularly with the onset of World War I. Despite this, at the turn of the 19th century