The Soviet Union and Revolutionary Iran (RLE Iran D) by Aryeh Yodfat

By Aryeh Yodfat

Relations among the USSR and Iran throughout the interval from the overthrow of the Shah and the institution of the Islamic Republic as much as early 1983 are reviewed during this publication. It starts with a short survey of Russian-Persian kinfolk in prior years, with a spotlight at the advancements that served as a history to the present occasions. It examines Soviet attitudes and reactions to Iran’s overseas and inner coverage and highlights the best way the Soviets usually increase occasions of which they don't approve so that it will draw Iran toward them. particularly, the e-book discusses the Soviet reaction to the Iran-Iraq conflict and the placement of the Tudeh social gathering and the opposite leftists inside of Iran. Iran’s coverage in the direction of the USSR is handled at size and it really is proven that it's suspicious of a tacit USA-USSR contract over the destiny of Iran. Khomeini’s makes an attempt to isolate Iran from either East and West also are reviewed. This publication was once one of many first to debate this important size in heart East politics and it makes an important contribution to our realizing of the forces riding the Iranian Revolution.

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