Russian-Arab worlds : a documentary history / edited by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, and Margaret Litvin.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197605790.Subject(s): Russia -- Foreign relations -- Middle East | Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Russia | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Middle East
| Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | Politics and Government | Politics & governmentAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197605769DDC classification: 327.47056 Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: When the Cold War ended, the long history of Russian and then Soviet engagement with Arab countries was largely forgotten, so the dominant role of Vladimir Putin's Russia in the region appeared to come out of nowhere. The thirty-four expertly introduced primary sources in this book recover a complex history of Russian-Arab ties and illuminate some of its most fascinating aspects: Russian Orthodox missionaries in Palestine, Arab communists traveling to the USSR, and, more surprising, Arabic legal documents written by Russian Muslims, Russian Jewish migrants to Palestine decades before Zionism, and 1940s Armenians 'repatriated' from Arab countries to the USSR.
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Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When the Cold War ended, the long history of Russian and then Soviet engagement with Arab countries was largely forgotten, so the dominant role of Vladimir Putin's Russia in the region appeared to come out of nowhere. The thirty-four expertly introduced primary sources in this book recover a complex history of Russian-Arab ties and illuminate some of its most fascinating aspects: Russian Orthodox missionaries in Palestine, Arab communists traveling to the USSR, and, more surprising, Arabic legal documents written by Russian Muslims, Russian Jewish migrants to Palestine decades before Zionism, and 1940s Armenians 'repatriated' from Arab countries to the USSR.
Specialized.
Text in English with translations of source material in Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar.
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