John Hare

Swallowed by the Russian Bear

Christoph Baumer’s account takes in the Great Game, Stalin’s reign of terror and the emergence of the newly independent ‘stans’

issue 16 June 2018

  • The History of Central Asia, Volume 4: The Age of Decline and Revival

    Christoph Baumer, translated from the German by Christopher W. Reid

    I.B. Tauris, pp. 352

In the 13th century, having overrun and terrorised Europe as far as Budapest, and in the process possibly bringing with them the flea which caused the Black Death, the heirs to Genghis Khan and the Golden Horde had also conquered territory to the east as far as the Korean peninsular.

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