Iranian-Russian Encounters Empires and revolutions since 1800

• Main Author: Cronin, Stephanie
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Iranian Studies
• Subjects: Central Asian Studies; Colonialism; Elites; History; Imperialism; Imperialism > History; Iran; Iran > Relations > Russia; Iran > Relations > Russia (Federation); Iran > Relations > Soviet Union; Middle East History; Modern History 1750-1945; Modernization; Post-communist societies; Revolution; Revolutions; Revolutions > History; Russia; Russia (Federation) > Relations > Iran; Russia - Relations - Iran; Russian Empire; Russian Federation; Soviet Union > Relations > Iran; U.S.S.R; Iranian Cinema; Iranian Constitutionalists; Young Man; Georgian Revolutionaries; Russian Social Democratic Labor Party; Soviet Iranian Treaties; Tudeh Party; Cossack Officers; mirza; Russo Iranian Wars; Social Democratic Committees; russo; Iranian Government; abbas; Iranian Army; Qajar Iran; De Fleuriau; EU Gas Market; Constitutional Movement; ali; Muzaffar Al Din Shah; Nasir Al Din Shah; Iranian Constitutional Revolution; Reza Shah; war; Iranian Cossack Brigade; reza; Iran's Foreign Policy Makers; Interwar Iran; Russian Iranian Relations; Cossack Brigade; party; tudeh
• ISBN: 9781138832268; 113883226X; 9780415624336; 0415624339
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203083758

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...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Iranian-Russian encounters: empires and revolutions since 1800 -- 1 The impact of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union on Qajar and Pahlavi Iran: notes toward a revisionist historiography -- Part I: Romanovs and Qajars -- 2 From confidence to apprehension: early Iranian interaction with Russia -- 3 Khosrow Mirza's mission to St Petersburg in 1829 -- 4 Russian land acquisition in Iran from 1828 to 1911 -- 5 How the Russians hosted the entrepreneur who gave them abellyache: new revelations on Malek al-ŁTojjar and the Russian role in Sherkat-Łe 'Omumi and the Astara Road -- 6 Deserters, converts, Cossacks and revolutionaries: Russians in Iranian military service, 1800-1920 -- Part II: Revolutionary Russia and Iran -- revolutionary Iran and Russia -- 7 The question of the Iranian Ijtima 'iyun-i Amiyun Party -- 8 Georgian sources on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1911: Sergo Gamdlishvili's memoirs of the Gilan resistance -- 9 Constitutionalists and Cossacks: the Constitutional movement and Russian intervention in Tabriz, 1907-1911 -- Part III: Pahlavi Iran and the Soviet Union -- 10 Duping the British and outwitting the Russians? Iran's foreign policy, the 'Bolshevik threat', and the genesis of the Soviet-Iranian Treaty of 1921 -- 11 The Comintern, the Soviet Union and labour militancy in interwar Iran -- 12 Iranian-Russian cinematic encounters -- 13 The impact of Soviet contact on Iranian theatre: Abdolhosein Nushin and the Tudeh Party -- Part IV: The Islamic Republic and post-Soviet Russia -- 14 Iran, Russia and Tajikistan's civil war -- 15 Iran and Russia: a tactical entente -- Index