Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the strategies implemented by the Soviet and Russian state to establish authority and legitimacy among predominantly Muslim populations in Central Asia, the Northern Caucasus and Siberia and to enhance Moscow’s influence internationally with nearby Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey. The digital archive is designed to disseminate these documents to the widest possible scholarly community and general readership. Read more...
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Lettre du Directeur de la Comptabilité Générale au Ministre des Affaires Étrangères
Letter from the Director of the General Accounting to the Minister of the Foreign Affairs
1919-06-24
Письмо министра военно-морского флота Франции министру иностранных дел Франции о финансовых делах в Крыму
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Proceedings of the First and Second All-Russia Congresses
of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East
Moscow, 1918 and 1919
This collection of documents represents the first full reproduction of the proceedings of the meetings of the two congresses of representatives of the…
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Soviet Muslim Posters
Visual propaganda played an enormous role in the history of the 20th century. In contrast to the 19th century, it...