The Great Game or the Many Misunderstandings about the Russian Advance in Central Asia
The Great Game or the Many Misunderstandings about the Russian Advance in Central Asia

Summary/Abstract: It seems that we live in a revisionist era. Historians discover new “firsts” almost too often. There are new “first total wars”, “world war zero”, or even people who contend that the international system was shaped by military bureaucracies, such as the Spanish military in the 16th century and then the British Royal Navy. It seems that especially diplomatic and international history is the focus of those revisionist aims. Directly connected with the purpose of this paper is the contention that 19th century was not, as every undergraduate has been taught for generations, the best example of a world guided by the principle of the balance of power, but rather a pre-nuclear bipolarity, at least for a very long time.

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