Russia's Turn to Persia: Orientalism in Diplomacy and Intelligence

ISBN-13: 9781108490788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 282 str.

Denis V. Volkov

Opis

Draws on recently declassified and unpublished sources to provide an original and in-depth analysis of Russian and Soviet Iranian studies.

Spis treści

A note of transliteration; Alphabetical list of abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; 1. Foucauldian notions and their applicability to the Russian case; 2. Organisational set-up of oriental studies in late Imperial Russia; 3. Organisational set-up of early Soviet Oriental studies (1917–41); 4. Between cultures and states: Russian orientologists and Russia's Eastern policy; 5. The birth and death of red orientalism (1917–41); General conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; List of archives used for research; Index.