Triple Entente
Anglo-Russian Convention
Anglo\-Russian Convention
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Russia had also recently lost the humiliating [Russo\-Japanese War](/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War "Russo-Japanese War"), a cause of the [Russian Revolution of 1905](/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905 "Russian Revolution of 1905"), and the apparent transformation into a constitutional monarchy. Although it was perceived as useless during the war with [Japan](/wiki/Japan "Japan"), the alliance was valuable in the European theatre to counteract the threat of the Triple Alliance. Tomaszewski describes the evolution of the triple entente relationship from the Russian standpoint during the period 1908 to 1914 as a progression from a shaky set of understandings that withstood various crises and emerged as a fully\-fledged alliance after the outbreak of World War I.

In 1907, the [Anglo\-Russian Entente](/wiki/Anglo-Russian_Entente "Anglo-Russian Entente") was agreed, which attempted to resolve a series of long\-running disputes over [Persia](/wiki/Persia "Persia"), [Afghanistan](/wiki/Afghanistan "Afghanistan") and [Tibet](/wiki/Tibet "Tibet") and end their rivalry in [Central Asia](/wiki/Central_Asia "Central Asia"), nicknamed [The Great Game](/wiki/The_Great_Game "The Great Game").Edward Ingram, "Great Britain's Great Game: An Introduction" *International History Review* 2\#2 pp. 160–71 [online](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40105749) and helped to address British fears about the [Baghdad Railway](/wiki/Baghdad_Railway "Baghdad Railway"), which would help German expansion in the [Near East](/wiki/Near_East "Near East").


What was the Great Game, and what region was it associated with?