Title Iranian-Russian Encounters : Empires and Revolutions since 1800

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (433 pages) Series Iranian Studies Iranian Studies Contents Introduction: Empires and Revolutions : Iranian-Russian Encounters since 1800 / Stephanie Cronin -- The Impact of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union on Qajar and Pahlavi Iran : Notes toward a Revisionist Historiography / Afshin Matin-asghari -- Part One. Romanovs and Qajars -- The early Qajars and the Russian Wars / Maziar Behrooz -- Khosrow Mirza's mission to Saint Petersburg in 1829 / Firuza Abdullaeva -- Russian Land Acquisition in Iran : 1828 to 1911 / Morteza Nourai and Vanessa Martin -- How Russia hosted the entrepreneur who gave them indigestion : New revelations on Hajj Kazem Malek al-Tujjar / Fatema Soudavar -- Deserters, Converts, Cossacks and Revolutionaries : Russians in Iranian Military Service, 1800-1920 / Stephanie Cronin -- Part Two. Revolutionary Russia and Iran; Revolutionary Iran and Russia -- The Question of the Iranian Ijtima'iyun-e 'Amiyun Party / Sohrab Yazdani -- Georgian Sources on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) : Sergo Gamdlishvili's Memoirs of the Gilan Resistance / Iago Gocheleishvili -- Constitutionalists and Cossacks : the Constitutional Movement and Russian Intervention in Tabriz, 1907-1911 / James Clark -- Part Three. Pahlavi Iran and the Soviet Union -- Duping the British and outwitting the Russians : Iran's foreign policy, the "Bolshevik threat," and the genesis of the Soviet-Iranian Treaty of 1921 / Oliver Bast -- The Comintern, the Soviet Union and Working Class Militancy in Interwar Iran / Touraj Atabaki -- An Iranian-Russian Cinematic Encounter / Emily Jane O'Dell -- The Impact of Soviet Contact on Iranian Theatre : Abdolhossein Nushin and the Tudeh Party / Saeed Talajooy -- Part Four. The Islamic Republic and post-Soviet Russia -- Iran, Russia and Tajikistan's Civil War / Muriel Atkin -- Iran and Russia : a Tactical Entente / Clément Therme Summary Over the past two hundred years, encounters between Iran and Russia have been both rich and complex. This book explores the myriad dimensions of the Iranian-Russian encounter during a dramatic period which saw both Iran and Russia subject to revolutionary upheavals and transformed from multinational dynastic empires typical of the nineteenth century to modernizing, authoritarian states typical of the twentieth. The collection provides a fresh perspective on traditional preoccupations of international relations: wars and diplomacy, the hostility of opposing nationalisms, the Ru Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Imperialism -- History Revolutions -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Imperialism International relations Revolutions SUBJECT Iran -- Relations -- Russia Iran -- Relations -- Soviet Union Iran -- Relations -- Russia (Federation) Russia -- Relations -- Iran Soviet Union -- Relations -- Iran Russia (Federation) -- Relations -- Iran Subject Iran Russia Russia (Federation) Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781136187216 1136187219 9780203083758 020308375X

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