Soviet Russia and Tibet - The Debacle of Secret Diplomacy, 1918-1930s

"Soviet Russia and Tibet" surveys for the first time the entire history of religious and political relations between Russia and Tibet, from the 17th to the late 20th century, focusing on Soviet attempts to win Lhasa over in the 1920s.

About the author

Alexandre I. Andreyev, Ph.D. (1998) in History, St Petersburg University, is Senior Research Associate at the Institute for the History of Science & Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg. He has published extensively on Buddhism in Russia and Russian exploration in Central Asia including The Buddhist Shrine of Petrograd (1992) and From Lake Baikal to Sacred Lhasa (1997).

Product details

• Authors: Alexandre Andreyev
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2003
• EAN: 9789004129528
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12952-8
• No. of pages: 434
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 247 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 948 g
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Librar
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies