Russian archives and the Great Game

[d.wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk]

On Thu,  8 Feb 1996 20:06:24 GMT you wrote:

>Has anyone begun to work in the Russian archives on what Czarist goals 
>were in Central Asia, whether the regime really was contemplating a move 
>on India or whether this was British paranoia?
>
>(If not here's a free dissertation topic for the youth.)
>
>
>
>Allen W. Thrasher

There's a marvellous book by Peter Hopkirk called _Setting the East Ablaze_
which details Lenin's aggressive aspirations for a soviet empire in India.  It
is very engagingly written, and the story it tells is, as one might imagine,
chilling.  Published by John Murray.

Dominik Wujastyk


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Dominik Wujastyk