Volume 47, Number 3 · February 24, 2000
The Empire's New Clothes
By David Gilmour
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
by Karl E. Meyer, by Shareen Blair Brysac
Counterpoint, 646 pp., $35.00
In 1914 the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen calculated that the Russian Empire had been expanding for over four centuries at an average daily rate of fifty-five square miles, or more than 20,000 square miles a year.
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