Endgame
Subtitle: Britain, Russia, and the final struggle for central Asia
By: Jennifer Siegel.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: 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.
Description: "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 rapprochement. 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 and various interests on both sides continued to stoke the fire with increasing aggressiveness. 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 book is a groundbreaking and original study based on hitherto unseen archives in Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as original research in London."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction xv; title: 1. The Great Game and the 1907 Agreement 1; title: 2. Triumph or Tribulation? The Realities of the Anglo-Russian 21; title: Relationship: 1907-8; title: 3. 'Old Designs under a New Cover'?: 1909 51; title: 4. Conflicting Motivations and the Drift towards Discord: 1910 76; title: 5. The Strangling of Anglo-Russian Foreign Policy: 1911 95; title: 6. Amicable Accord or Impending Breach?: 1912 117; title: 7. 'Towards a Revision of the Anglo-Russian Agreement': 1913 143; title: 8. The Death of the Anglo-Russian Agreement: 1914 175; title: Conclusion 197.