Frost-tempered
Greg Afinogenov: Russia in Central Asia, 25 April 2024
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914
by Alexander Morrison.
Cambridge, 613 pp., £35.99, August 2022,978 1 107 03030 5 Show More
by Alexander Morrison.
Cambridge, 613 pp., £35.99, August 2022,
Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia
by Maziar Behrooz.
I.B. Tauris, 214 pp., £21.99, May 2023,978 0 7556 3737 9 Show More
by Maziar Behrooz.
I.B. Tauris, 214 pp., £21.99, May 2023,
“... it was the leadership of the Russian officer corps, which had once triumphed over Napoleon? Maziar Behrooz’s Iran at War, which analyses the history of Qajar Iran’s long conflict with Russia a few decades before the conquest of Central Asia, suggests one possible answer. Behrooz describes an audience between ... ”