Iranian Azerbaijan--an ideological battle-field between Moscow and Tehran--has been a target for Soviet takeover since the formation of the USSR. The effort gained impetus when the Red Army occupied northern Iran in 1941, bringing with it a special detachment of Soviet Azeri Communist Party activists whose goal was to stimulate a national liberatio
The Soviet Union and Iranian Azerbaijan surveys the development of the political relationship between the Azeris of the Soviet Union and those of Iran--who originated the spread of Bolshevism among Iranian Azeri oil workers in 1905--and examines the legacy of this movement today.
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
Jun 2020
ISBN
9780367296124
Pages
134 p.
Item Type
Book
Format
Hardcover
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