Publisher description for Endgame : Britain, Russia, and the final struggle for central Asia / Jennifer Siegel.
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By the early 1900s both Britain and Russia, suspicious of Imperial Germany, decided to stabilize their relations and replace their rivalry in Central Asia –
the "Great Game" –
with reapprochement. But as Jennifer Siegel here demonstrates, reality in the field told a different story. The momentum of imperial rivalry, spiced by oil and railway development, could not be arrested. By 1914 Britain and Russia were on the brink of war with each other to be saved only by the outbreak of World War I. This is a groundbreaking study based on hitherto unseen archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as original research in London.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Europe Politics and government 1871-1918, Great Britain Foreign relations Russia, Russia Foreign relations Great Britain, Russia Foreign relations 1894-1917, Great Britain Foreign relations 1901-1936, Asia, Central