The Sovietization of Azerbaijan : the South Caucasus in the triangle of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, 1920-1922

The Sovietization of Azerbaijan : the South Caucasus in the triangle of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, 1920-1922 /

"World War I and the fall of Tsarist Russia brought brief independence to Azerbaijan, but by 1920 the Bolshevik revolution pushed south with the twofold purpose of accessing the oil-rich fields near Baku on the Caspian Sea and spreading communism into the Caucasus. Azerbaijan, the richest and e...

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Main Author: Hasanli, Jamil (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2017
Series:Utah series in Middle East studies.
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Caucasus, South > History.
Caucasus, South > Relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Relations > Caucasus, South.
Turkey > Relations > Caucasus, South.
Caucasus, South > Relations > Turkey.
Iran > Relations > Caucasus, South.
Caucasus, South > Relations > Iran.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The political situation in Azerbaijan in the early twentieth century
  • The domestic and international position of Azerbaijan after the Bolshevik occupation
  • The eastern policy of Soviet Russia and Iran
  • The sovietization of Armenia : Moscow's secret plans for Karabagh
  • Collaboration after occupation : drawing South Caucasus borders after sovietization
  • The Russian-Turkish conference in Moscow and Azerbaijan
  • From Moscow to Kars
  • The struggle for Baku oil and the formation of the Soviet Union.

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