Before revision: Mearsheimer cites as an example Russia's efforts to provoke Austria and Prussia into war with France shortly after the French Revolution, evidenced by Catherine the Great's statement to her secretary in 1791 , "I am racking my brains in order to push the courts of Vienna and Berlin into French affairs...
After revision: Mearsheimer cites as an example Russia's efforts to provoke Austria and Prussia into war with France shortly after the French Revolution:. evidenced by Catherine the Great's statement to her secretary in 1791 , "I am racking my brains in order to push the courts of Vienna and Berlin into French affairs...