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Russian-Arab worlds ; a documentary history / ; edited by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova and Margaret Litvin.

https://altair.imarabe.org//notice.php?q=id:132814 book 2023 The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer's diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated contemporary Syrian novelist, and many more. These archival, autobiographical, and literary sources, all appearing in English for the first time, are introduced by specialists and in some cases by pairs of scholars with complementary language expertise. They highlight connections long obscured by disciplinary cleavages between Slavic and Middle East studies..<br /> When the Cold War ended, the long history of Russian and then Soviet engagement with Arab countries was largely forgotten, so the dominant role of Vladimir Putin's Russia in the region appeared to come out of nowhere. The thirty-four expertly introduced primary sources in this book recover a complex history of Russian-Arab ties and illuminate some of its most fascinating aspects: Russian Orthodox missionaries in Palestine, Arab communists traveling to the USSR, and, more surprising, Arabic legal documents written by Russian Muslims, Russian Jewish migrants to Palestine decades before Zionism, and 1940s Armenians “repatriated” from Arab countries to the USSR. 1 vol. (IX-388 p.) : ; 27 cm. ; ill., cartes, fac-sim., jaquette ill. en coul. ; Relations 1800-.... Russie Relations extérieures 1800-.... Russie Kane, Eileen M. Kirasirova, Masha Litvin, Margaret Anglais ABES
2023
Auteur/Artiste :
Kane, Eileen M. 1972-.... (Directeur de la publication), Kirasirova, Masha 19..-.... (Directeur de la publication), Litvin, Margaret 1974-.... (Directeur de la publication)  
Langue(s) du document :
Anglais  
Année de publication :
2023  
Description matérielle :
1 vol. (IX-388 p.) : ; 27 cm. ; ill., cartes, fac-sim., jaquette ill. en coul.  
Résumé éditeur :
The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer's diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated contemporary Syrian novelist, and many more. These archival, autobiographical, and literary sources, all appearing in English for the first time, are introduced by specialists and in some cases by pairs of scholars with complementary language expertise. They highlight connections long obscured by disciplinary cleavages between Slavic and Middle East studies..<br /> When the Cold War ended, the long history of Russian and then Soviet engagement with Arab countries was largely forgotten, so the dominant role of Vladimir Putin's Russia in the region appeared to come out of nowhere. The thirty-four expertly introduced primary sources in this book recover a complex history of Russian-Arab ties and illuminate some of its most fascinating aspects: Russian Orthodox missionaries in Palestine, Arab communists traveling to the USSR, and, more surprising, Arabic legal documents written by Russian Muslims, Russian Jewish migrants to Palestine decades before Zionism, and 1940s Armenians “repatriated” from Arab countries to the USSR.  
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Relations  
1800-....  
Russie  
Relations extérieures