Editing Great Game (section)

=== Soviet Great Game ===
According to German historian David X. Noack, the Great Game resumed from 1919 to 1933 as a conflict between Britain and the Soviet Union, with the [[Weimar Republic]] and Japan as additional players. Noack calls it a "Second Tournament of Shadows" over the territory composing the border of British India, China, the Soviet Union and Japanese Manchuria. To Britain, the Germans initially appeared to be a secret Soviet ally. In 1933–1934 it "ended with Mongolia, Soviet Central Asia, [[Tuvan People's Republic|Tannu-Tuva]] and Xinjiang isolated from non-Soviet influence."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Noack|first=David|date=14 December 2020|title=The Second Tournament of Shadows and British Invasion Scares in Central Asia, 1919–1933|url=https://oxussociety.org/the-second-tournament-of-shadows-and-british-invasion-scares-in-central-asia-1919-1933/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs|language=en-US|archive-date=14 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914022752/https://oxussociety.org/the-second-tournament-of-shadows-and-british-invasion-scares-in-central-asia-1919-1933/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZzr04qb7z4 ''The Second Tournament of Shadows: Perceptions of great power politics in Turkestan, 1919–1933'', youtube.com 18.11.2022.]</ref> Authors Andrei Znamenski and Alexandre Andreyev also describe the continuation of elements of the Great Game by the Soviet Union until the 1930s, focused on secret diplomacy and espionage in Tibet and Mongolia.<ref name=":11" /><ref name=":42" />