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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797479503321

Titolo

The USSR and the Muslim world : issues in domestic and foreign policy / / edited by Yaacov Ro'i

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-39975-7

1-317-39976-5

1-315-68130-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the Middle East ; ; Volume 25

Altri autori (Persone)

Ro'iYaacov

Disciplina

327.56047

Soggetti

Muslims - Asia, Central

Middle East Foreign relations Soviet Union Congresses

Soviet Union Foreign relations Middle East Congresses

Afghanistan History Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1984 by George Allen & Unwin.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One The Soviet Domestic Context: Socio-Political Aspects ""; ""1 National Symbiosis: Vitality, Religion, Identity, Allegiance""; ""2 The Central Government and Peripheral Opposition in Khiva, 1910-24""; ""3 Central Asian Political Participation and Soviet Political Development""; ""4 Trends in the Soviet Muslim Population: Demographic Aspects""; ""5 The Soviet Muslim Population: Trends in Living Standards, 1960-75""

""Part Two The Soviet Domestic Context: Cultural and Ideological Aspects""""6 The Significance of Increasing Bilingualism among Soviet Muslims""; ""7 The Effect of the USSR's Language Policy on the National Languages of its Turkic Population""; ""8 The Impact of the Islamic Fundamentalist Revival of the Late 1970s on the Soviet View of Islam""; ""Part Three Foreign Policy Aspects""; ""9 Soviet Central Asia: a Model of Non-Capitalist Development for the Third World""; ""10 Soviet Experience of Muslim Guerrilla Warfare and the War in Afghanistan""

""11 First Steps in Soviet Diplomacy toward Afghanistan, 1917-21""""12



Soviet Policy and the Constraints of Nationalism in Iran and Afghanistan""; ""13 Saudi Arabia's Attitude toward the USSR, 1977-80: Between Saudi Pragmatism and Islamic Conservatism""; ""14 Dilemmas of Arab Communism: The case of the Syrian Communist Party, 1969-73""; ""Afterword""; ""Index""