Title Russia's turn to Persia : orientalism in diplomacy and intelligence / Denis V. Volkov

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; List of Archives Used for Research; Russia (Moscow); Russia (St Petersburg); Georgia (Tbilisi); Introduction; Statement of Method; 1 Foucauldian Notions and Their Applicability to the Russian Case; Introduction; Foucauldian Concepts and Russia; Imperial Russia; Soviet Russia; Foucauldian Power/Knowledge; Organisational Arrangement of Science and Scholarly Knowledge in Late Imperial Russia Organisational Arrangement of Science and Scholarly Knowledge in Early Soviet RussiaThe Foucauldian Epistème; Epistème in Russia; The Foucauldian Discourse; Discourse in Imperial Russia; Discourse in Soviet Russia; The Foucauldian Intellectual; The Intellectual and Resistance in Imperial Russia; The Intellectual and Resistance in Soviet Russia; Conclusion; 2 Organisational Set-Up of Late Imperial Russian Oriental Studies; Introduction; Political Context of Russo-Persian Relationships in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Russian Oriental Studies Academic Scholarship in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyRussian Military Oriental Studies before 1917; Russian Diplomatic Service and Oriental Studies before 1917; Russia's Missionary Activities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century; Conclusion; 3 Organisational Set-Up of Early Soviet Oriental Studies (1917-41); Introduction; Political Context of Russo-Persian Relationships in 1917-21; Bolshevik Military Oriental Studies, 1917-21; Bolshevik Diplomatic Service and Oriental Studies, 1917-21 Bolshevik Oriental Studies Scholarship Set-Up, 1917-21Political Context of Soviet-Iranian Relationships in 1921-41; Soviet Diplomatic and Military Oriental Studies, 1921-41; Organisational Set-Up of Academic Oriental Studies, 1921-41; Conclusion; 4 Between Cultures and States: Russian Orientologists and Russia's Eastern Policy; Introduction; Civilian Academic Scholars; Officers-Vostochniki; Diplomats-Vostochniki; Conclusion; 5 The Birth and Death of Red Orientalism (1917-41); Introduction; Academic Iranology: New versus Old; Red Orientalism: NKID as a Mill of Scholarly Knowledge Discontinuities and the Inception of New Institutional Practices'A Nation Does Not Make Mistakes, Does She?'; Conclusion; General Conclusion; Archival Findings; Appendix: Biographical Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Draws on recently declassified and unpublished sources to provide an original and in-depth analysis of Russian and Soviet Iranian studies Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Diplomatic relations Education SUBJECT Russia -- Foreign relations -- Iran Iran -- Foreign relations -- Russia Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Iran Iran -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union Middle East -- Study and teaching -- Russia -- History Middle East -- Study and teaching -- Soviet Union -- History Subject Iran Middle East Russia Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108645270 1108645275 9781108664165 1108664164

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