The Sovietization of Azerbaijan: The South Caucasus in the Triangle of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, 1920-1922

by Jamil Hasanli

Utah Series in Middle East Studies

World War I and the fall of tsarist Russia brought brief independence to Azerbaijan, but by 1920 the Bolshevik revolution pushed south with the twofold purpose of accessing the oil-rich fields near Baku on the Caspian Sea and spreading communism into the Caucasus. Azerbaijan, the richest and earliest significant source of oil in the world, was the first republic in the South Caucasus occupied by the Red Army,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607815931
• ISBN13: 9781607815938
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.2" x 10.1"