The Great Game......(gotta love TRPs sly layering, wonderful)

[Mark Kohut]

The Great Game
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Central Asia, circa 1848.
For the film, see The Great Game (film) 
The Great Game is a British term for what was seen by the British to be a strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 a second, less intensive phase followed.
The term "The Great Game" is usually attributed to Arthur Conolly, an intelligence officer of the British East India Company's Sixth Bengal Light Cavalry.[1] It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim (1901).
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1 Origin and scope 
2 British-Russian rivalry in Afghanistan 
3 Anglo-Russian Alliance 
4 Criticism 
5 British-Soviet rivalry in Afghanistan 
6 New Great Game 
7 See also 
8 References 
9 External links


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