The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach
deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those
entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of
primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian,
French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer's diary, an Arabic
slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a
Russian-educated contemporary Syrian novelist, and many more. These
archival, autobiographical, and literary sources, all appearing in
English for the first time, are introduced by specialists and in
some cases by pairs of scholars with complementary language
expertise. They highlight connections long obscured by disciplinary
cleavages between Slavic and Middle East studies. Taken together,
the thirty-four chapters of this book show how various
Russian/Soviet and Arab governments sought to nurture political and
cultural ties and expand their influence, often with unplanned
results. They reveal the transnational networks of trade,
pilgrimage, study, ethnic identity, and political affinity that
state policies sometimes fostered and sometimes disrupted. Above
all they give voice to some of the resourceful characters who have
embodied and exploited Arab-Russian contacts: missionaries and
diplomats, soldiers and refugees, students and party activists,
scholars, and spies. A set of specially commissioned maps helps
orient readers amid the expansion and collapse of empires, border
changes, population transfers, and creation of new nation-states
that occurred during the two centuries these sources cover.
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