Iranian-russian Encounters: Empires And Revolutions Since 1800 Project Muse Upcc Books

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 Dynastic Empires Typical Of The Nineteenth Century To Modernizing, Authoritarian States Typical Of The Twentieth. The Collection Provides A Fresh Perspective On Traditional Preoccupations Of International Relations: Wars And Diplomacy, The Hostility Of Opposing Nationalisms, The Russian Imperial Menace In The Nineteenth Century And The Soviet Threat In The Twentieth. Going Beyond The Traditional, This Book Examines Subaltern As Well As Elite Relations And Combines A Cultural, Social And Intellectual Dimension With The Political And Diplomatic. In Doing So The Book Seeks To Construct A New Discourse Which Contests The Notion Of An Implacable Enmity Between Iran And Russia. Bringing Together Leading Scholars In The Field, This Book Demonstrates Extensive Use Of Family Archives, Iranian, Russian And Caucasian Travelogues And Memoirs, And Newly Available Archives In Both Iran And The Countries Of The Former Soviet Union. Providing Essential Background To Current International Tensions, This Book Will Be Of Particular Use To Students And Scholars With An Interest In The Middle East And Russia. Introduction: Empires And Revolutions : Iranian-russian Encounters Since 1800 / Stephanie Cronin -- The Impact Of Imperial Russia And The Soviet Union On Qajar And Pahlavi Iran : Notes Toward A Revisionist Historiography / Afshin Matin-asghari -- Part One. Romanovs And Qajars -- The Early Qajars And The Russian Wars / Maziar Behrooz -- Khosrow Mirza's Mission To Saint Petersburg In 1829 / Firuza Abdullaeva -- Russian Land Acquisition In Iran : 1828 To 1911 / Morteza Nourai And Vanessa Martin -- How Russia Hosted The Entrepreneur Who Gave Them Indigestion : New Revelations On Hajj Kazem Malek Al-tujjar / Fatema Soudavar -- Deserters, Converts, Cossacks And Revolutionaries : Russians In Iranian Military Service, 1800-1920 / Stephanie Cronin -- Part Two. Revolutionary Russia And Iran; Revolutionary Iran And Russia -- The Question Of The Iranian Ijtima'iyun-e 'amiyun Party / Sohrab Yazdani -- Georgian Sources On The Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) : Sergo Gamdlishvili's Memoirs Of The Gilan Resistance / Iago Gocheleishvili -- Constitutionalists And Cossacks : The Constitutional Movement And Russian Intervention In Tabriz, 1907-1911 / James Clark -- Part Three. Pahlavi Iran And The Soviet Union -- Duping The British And Outwitting The Russians : Iran's Foreign Policy, The Bolshevik Threat, And The Genesis Of The Soviet-iranian Treaty Of 1921 / Oliver Bast -- The Comintern, The Soviet Union And Working Class Militancy In Interwar Iran / Touraj Atabaki -- An Iranian-russian Cinematic Encounter / Emily Jane O'dell -- The Impact Of Soviet Contact On Iranian Theatre : Abdolhossein Nushin And The Tudeh Party / Saeed Talajooy -- Part Four. The Islamic Republic And Post-soviet Russia -- Iran, Russia And Tajikistan's Civil War / Muriel Atkin -- Iran And Russia : A Tactical Entente / Clément Therme. Edited By Stephanie Cronin. Simultaneously Published In The Usa And Canada--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright Page 7 Contents 8 List of illustrations 12 Notes on contributors 14 Acknowledgements 19 Note on transliteration 20 Introduction: Iranian–Russian encounters: empires and revolutions since 1800 22 1 The impact of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union on Qajar and Pahlavi Iran: notes toward a revisionist historiography 32 Part I: Romanovs and Qajars 68 2 From confidence to apprehension: early Iranian interaction with Russia 70 3 Khosrow Mirza's mission to St Petersburg in 1829 90 4 Russian land acquisition in Iran from 1828 to 1911 116 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 129 6 Deserters, converts, Cossacks and revolutionaries: Russians in Iranian military service, 1800–1920 164 Part II: Revolutionary Russia and Iran; revolutionary Iran and Russia 208 7 The question of the Iranian Ijtima 'iyun-i Amiyun Party 210 8 Georgian sources on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905–1911: Sergo Gamdlishvili's memoirs of the Gilan resistance 228 9 Constitutionalists and Cossacks: the Constitutional movement and Russian intervention in Tabriz, 1907–1911 252 Part III: Pahlavi Iran and the Soviet Union 280 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 282 11 The Comintern, the Soviet Union and labour militancy in interwar Iran 319 12 Iranian–Russian cinematic encounters 345 13 The impact of Soviet contact on Iranian theatre: Abdolhosein Nushin and the Tudeh Party 358 Part IV: The Islamic Republic and post-Soviet Russia 380 14 Iran, Russia and Tajikistan's civil war 382 15 Iran and Russia: a tactical entente 398 Index 422 This collection will explore the myriad encounters which have taken place between Iranians and Russian in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will include some discussion of diplomacy and foreign policy but a central objective of the collection will be to widen the scholarly perspective to incorporate an understanding of other types of encounter, whether political, economic, social, cultural, or intellectual, and both friendly and hostile, especially as these developed beyond the official and elite levels. In particular it will attempt to understand the complexities of the impact on Iran of the Russian presence on its northern borders: the very expansion of Tsarist empire during the nineteenth century threatening Iran's independence yet bringing ideas of social-democracy to its doorstep, the Soviet Union in the twentieth century similarly contradictory in its effect, sustaining radical Iranian politics while advancing its own strategic interests.