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Russia's protectorates in Central Asia
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ISBN: 1134335830 128017515X 0203390830 9780203390832 9780415328036 0415328039 9786610175154 6610175152 0415328039 9781134335831 9781134335787 9781134335824 9780415546188 1134335822 0415546184 Year: 2004 Volume: 5 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon

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This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between Russia and the territories until their extinction as political entities in 1924. It shows how Russia's approach developed from one of non-intervention, with the primary aim of preventing British expansion from India into the region, to one of increasing intervention as trade and Russian settlement grew. It goes on to discuss the role of Bukhara and Khiva in the First World War and the Russian Revolution, and how the region was fundamentally cha

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