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A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.
At the heart of the Great Game lay the willingness of Britain and Russia to subdue, subvert, or subjugate the small independent states that lay between Russia and British India.
It was the threat of the expanding Russian Empire beginning to push for an advantage in the Afghanistan region that placed pressure on British India, in what became known as the " Great Game ".
The Great Game set in motion the confrontation of the British and Russian empires, whose spheres of influence moved steadily closer to one another until they met in Afghanistan.
Like all foreign policy developments of this period affecting Afghanistan, the conclusion of the " Great Game " between Russia and Britain occurred without the Afghan ruler's participation.
* The Rise of Dost Mohammad and the Beginning of the Great Game
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An early example of espionage literature is Kim by the English novelist Rudyard Kipling, with a description of the training of an intelligence agent in the Great Game between the UK and Russia in 19th century Central Asia.
Collision between the expanding British and Russian Empires significantly influenced Afghanistan during the 19th century in what was termed " The Great Game ".
The Great Game between Russia and Britain was the struggle for power in the Central Asian region in the nineteenth century.
Although imperialist practices have existed for thousands of years, the term " Age of Imperialism " generally refers to the activities of nations such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in the early 18th through the middle 20th centuries, e. g., the " The Great Game " in Persian lands, the " Scramble for Africa " and the " Open Door Policy " in China.
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Category: The New Great Game
During this time the British and Russian Empires were vying for influence in Central Asia, a rivalry which would become known as The Great Game.
* In the graphic novel Scarlet Traces-the Great Game ( 2002 ), Olympus Mons is the main base of the British Mars Expeditionary Force.
Stein, as well as other contemporary explorers like Sven Hedin, Sir Francis Younghusband and Nikolai Przhevalsky, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the so-called Great Game.
The Great Game: the struggle for empire in Central Asia.
During The Great Game era, taking advantage of the Dungan revolt in northwest China, Yaqub Beg invaded Xinjiang from Central Asia with support from the Russian Empire, and made himself the ruler of the kingdom of Kashgaria.
Richard Channing Garfield, PhD ( born June 26, 1963, Philadelphia ) is a game designer who created the card games Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, BattleTech CCG, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle ( originally known as Jyhad ), The Great Dalmuti, Star Wars Trading Card Game, and the board game RoboRally.
Kim ( 1901 ) by Rudyard Kipling concerns the Anglo – Russian Great Game of imperial and geopolitical rivalry and strategic warfare for supremacy in Central Asia, usually in Afghanistan.
* Central Asia: Russia and Britain competed for domination in the " Great Game "
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, Kodansha International, 1992, ISBN 4-7700-1703-0, 565p.
The timeline of the Great Game is available online.
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia, Shareen Brysac, 2001, ISBN 0-349-11366-1

Great and 1939
By 1933, the party had approximately 3. 5 million members but as a result of the Great Purge party membership was cut down to 1. 9 million by 1939.
* " Moskowitz, the Futurians and the Great Exclusion Act of 1939 " by David Kyle
In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).
"' An Idyllic and Unruffled Atmosphere of Complete Anglo – German Misunderstanding ': Aspects of the Operation of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop in Great Britain 1934 – 1939 ".
* Great Depression – August 1929 to September 1939: the longest ( and most severe ) recession of the 20th century
The Great Purge of 1937 – 1939 and Purge of 1940 – 1942 removed many leading officers from the Red Army, including Tukhachevsky and many of his followers, and the doctrine was abandoned.
Rural flight from the Great Plains has been depicted in literature, such as John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), in which a family from the Great Plains migrates to California during the Dust Bowl period of the 1930s.
The Great War monument was not installed until the 1939 royal visit, and King intended that the replanning of the capital would be the World War II memorial.
Fascism, a movement which grew out of post-war angst and which accelerated during the Great Depression of the 1930s, gained momentum in Italy, Germany and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), sparked by Nazi Germany's aggressive expansion at the expense of its neighbors.
* The economic and political aftermath of World War I and the Great Depression in the 1930s led to the rise of fascism and nazism in Europe, and subsequently to World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ).
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* The Great Victor Herbert ( 1939 )
The first edition was published in 1939, set and printed in Great Britain by William Brendon & Son, Ltd., at the Mayflower Press, Plymouth, in Walbaum type, twelve point, leaded, on a toned opaque-wove paper made by John Dickinson, and bound by James Burn.
From 1933 to 1939, even as he greatly expanded the scope of the federal government's policies and powers in response to the Great Depression, Roosevelt muddled through: his " brains trust " of top advisers, although working directly for the President, often were appointed to vacant positions in agencies and departments, whence they drew their salaries since the White House lacked statutory or budgetary authority to create new staff positions.
Using the remainder of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 to write for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was created to put people back to work and helped many artists, musicians and writers survive during the Great Depression.
Marked by global instability and the Great Depression, the 1930s contended with several consequential European and Asian outbreaks of war, leading up to catastrophic World War II in 1939.
* Oz: The Great and Powerful, intended as a prequel to the 1939 Wizard of Oz film
In September 1939, after Germany had invaded Poland, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.
A. Milchakov, Berg's connection to the invention of the gas van ( already used in 1936 ) has never been conclusively proven, and Berg himself was summarily executed during the Great Purge in 1939.
His agitations for a united socialist front of all parties of the left ( including the Communist Party of Great Britain ) led to his brief expulsion from the Labour Party in March to November 1939 ( along with Stafford Cripps and C. P.
He continued to give creditable performances in lesser pictures, for example as Inspector Nielson in some of Paramount Pictures ' Bulldog Drummond mysteries, and offered one last bravura dramatic turn in RKO's 1939 feature The Great Man Votes.
In addition, he claimed the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1936 – 41 ) and King of the Albanians ( 1939 – 43 ), which were unrecognised by the Great Powers.
The Great Silver Fleet ( 1939 )

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