The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire

by Kirasirova

Book Overview

In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus--with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism, and progress toward socialism in the "foreign East"--the Third World. Support for anti-colonial movements abroad was part of the Communist Party platform and shaped Soviet foreign policy to varying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197685706
• ISBN13: 9780197685709
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"