IDEAL | The Great Game of Britain: The classic race game along Britain's historic railway networks | Classic Board Games | For 2-6 Players | Ages 7+

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Goodwin, Jason (20 February 2009). "Mongolia and the Madman". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 19 March 2023. With its panoply of outlandish tyrants, fortune tellers, mounted tribesmen and wild dreams advanced against absurd odds, the whole story [of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg] could have possessed the makings of a glorious offshoot of the Great Game, had Ungern been anything more than a murderous sadist. On November 19, 1905 a convocation was organized by "The Union for Autonomy" in which 83 representatives participated from Azerbaizhan, Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Latvia, Ukraine, the Kazakhs, the Tatars and others from among the ethnonationally oppressed nations. In the gathering, … the resolution was put forth that … every ethnonational people should receive autonomy in which they run their own affairs. (21) Japanese Spies in Inner Asia during the Early Twentieth Century* | The Silk Road". edspace.american.edu. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021 . Retrieved 1 September 2021. a b Korbel, Josef (1966). Danger in Kashmir. Princeton, New Jersey. p.277. ISBN 978-1-4008-7523-8. OCLC 927444240. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023 . Retrieved 9 August 2021. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

a b c d e f Andreev, A. I. (2003). Soviet Russia and Tibet: the debacle of secret diplomacy, 1918-1930s. Leiden: Brill. pp.13–15, 18–20. ISBN 90-04-12952-9. OCLC 51330174. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023 . Retrieved 1 September 2021.

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What this means for the Russian advance into Central Asia is summed up most effectively in one particular passage: Robert Middleton, Huw Thomas, and Markus Hauser. Tajikistan and the High Pamirs, Odyssey Books, p. 476 In 1908, the Persian Constitutional Revolution sought to establish a Western-oriented, democratic civil society in Iran, with an elected Majilis, a relatively free press and other reforms. Seeking to resolve financial problems of the Qajar dynasty such as heavy debts to Imperial Russia and Britain, the Majilis recruited the American financial expert, Morgan Schuster, who later wrote the book The Strangling of Persia condemning Britain and Russia. [12]

It would strengthen protectionism and thereby undermine the free trading ideal that Britain was committed to. Nevertheless, in 1716, the Russians embarked on the construction of the so-called Orenburg-Siberian defensive line…protecting the southern frontier of the Russian Empire. …However, nomadic tribes regularly raided the frontier area during the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries—as, for example, they did under the command of the self-proclaimed Kazakh “sultan” Kenessary Kasimov in 1841-47. Numerous gangs of mounted bandits frequently broke through defensive lines of cordon posts, looted Russian colonists, captured many people, and sold them as white slaves on the markets of Khiva and Bokhara, while frontier guards were enlisted mostly to garrison service. The ignorance of local specialities, inadequate mobility, and a scarcity of the means of offensive prevented frontier guards from conducting effective punitive expeditions on a regular basis … to eliminate banditry and slavery in Central Asia (pp. 56–57; cf. p. 144, 159, 221). a b c Meyer, Karl E. (2009). Tournament of Shadows: the Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Shareen Blair Brysac. New York: Basic Books. pp.235–236, 239. ISBN 978-0-7867-3678-2. OCLC 817868028. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023 . Retrieved 6 September 2021. The founder of Theosophy, esotericist Helena Blavatsky has also been connected to the Great Game, [162] with her Himalayas-inspired Western mysticism both critiquing, and falling for, two forms of Orientalism by the British and Russian Empires, as they competed to define and claim "the Orient". Blavatsky would be referenced by the poet Velimir Khlebnikov, who argued that Britain and Russia had both taken traits from the Kazan Khanate and Mongol Empire respectively, in their colonial struggle over Asia. Blavatsky would also refer to Russia's double-layered conception of itself as a European power in contrast to Asia as well as an empire based in Asia; meanwhile, she would also "consciously appropriate" British rhetoric on Russia in labelling herself a "Russian savage". Both Blavatsky and Khlebnikov claimed Kalmyk ancestry in imitation of the traditionally nomadic culture. Scholar Anindita Banerjee argued this shows a "deconstruction" of national identities by identifying with a "religious, geographic, and ethnic other", relevant to the diversity of Central Asia and India and the frontier that existed between the British and Russian Empires. [163] 1933 painting by Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich, Tibet. Himalayas. 1924 or 1927 painting by Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich, Command of Rigden Djapoof The Great Game on contemporary political boundaries Toggle Effect of The Great Game on contemporary political boundaries subsection