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Stalin's Early Cold War Foreign Policy - Southern Neighbours in the Shadow of Moscow, 1945-1947 (Hardcover)
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Stalin's Early Cold War Foreign Policy - Southern Neighbours in the Shadow of Moscow, 1945-1947 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
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Immediately after the Allied WW2 victory in Europe, claims were
made by the Soviet Union over the eastern regions of Turkey, to
secure direct control over the Bosporus, Dardanelles, and Turkish
Straits. The detailed study of the international components of
these events, featuring the veiled complexities of Stalin's
anti-Turkish diplomacy, provides a key to understanding crucial
aspects of these Soviet territorial claims. Iranian Azerbaijan
became another hotspot of post-war confrontation between the
western Allies and the USSR: Soviet policy towards Iran manifested
in the desire to access their oil resources. A further direction
emerging within Soviet post-war strategy was the Kurdish issue in
the Near and Middle East. At the conjunction of Turkish and Iranian
events, Soviet secret service bodies and diplomatic institutions
exploited their strengths and toyed with Kurdish minorities in the
region. Their decisions placed the bordering regions of China,
Turkey, and Iran squarely in the shadowy reaches of Moscow's
policy. This research uses newly discovered archive material to
illustrate the underlying intrigue behind Soviet ambition and
intimately tracks how the Soviet Union was defeated in the first
Cold War confrontation over its southern borders. It also links
events of this period with the critical issue of Uyghur
assimilation, and further contemporary developments highlighting
Putin's policies, making it invaluable for both academic and
general readers.
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