To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most ...

How the Kremlin's plan for a quick conquest turned into a quagmire ...

Russia had a plan to conquer Ukraine in about a week. A year after it tried to execute that plan, Russia's army was in a fierce, bloody battle for a small, strategically insignificant city it had ...

Slavery strained Central Asia's relations with Russia, England, and Iran, and would serve as a major justification for the Russian conquest of this region in the 1860s–70s. Challenging the consensus ...