The Soviet Union and the Iran: Soviet Policy in Iran from the Beginnings of the Pahlavi Dynasty Until the Soviet Invasion in 1941

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Brill Archive, 01.01.1981 - 425 Seiten
 

Inhalt

The Domestic Framework
21
The Soviet Attitude toward Reza Shah and the Pahlavi Dynasty
41
I
63
II
115
III
171
The Communist International and the Iranian Communist Movement
257
The German Threat to the Soviet Union in Iran and the Soviet Response
311
German Influence in Iran during the Weimer Period
318
SovietBritish Differences in Iran
373
General Conclusions
385
Appendix
391
Bibliography
397
Index
421

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Seite 255 - I am in a position to state categorically, as I have always stated, that my Government, whose attitude towards the Persian nation is entirely friendly, has never sought to place any restriction upon the progress and prosperity of Persia. I myself fully share this attitude, and would be prepared, should friendly relations be maintained between the two countries, to promote negotiations with a view to a total or partial revision of these Articles on the lines desired by the Persian Government, as far...‎
Seite 22 - Russia is not, therefore, in a sense, a factor of stability; she is, indeed, the most menacing of our uncertainties, and it must be in spite of Russia, perhaps even because of Russia, that a policy of security must be framed.‎
Seite 257 - Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?" That was very true, he thought. There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch except by bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force?‎
Seite 85 - Russian money pays for the most incongruous assortment of political movements, popular upheavals, dynastic flurries, tribal agitations. Most of the crop of rebellions which have been harvested by Reza Shah's seizure of the imperial crown have had legitimate and natural bases, of course; but in some of them, particularly those which have been taking place in the north, in Gilan and Mazanderan, and in the north-east, toward Turkestan, Russian influence is so obvious that it would be silly to disregard...‎
Seite 115 - Each of the Contracting Parties agrees to take no part, whether de facto or de jure, in political alliances or agreements directed against the safety of the territory or territorial waters of the other Contracting Party or against its integrity, independence or sovereignty.‎
Seite 116 - Party by means of violence, insurrection or outrage; 2. organizations or groups usurping the office of the Government of the other country or of part of its territory, also having as their object the subversion of the Government of the other Contracting Party by the above-mentioned means, a breach of its peace and security, or an Infringement of its territorial Integrity.‎
Seite 116 - Parties, being determined to abstain from any intervention in the internal affairs of the other Party and from any propaganda or campaign against the Government of the other Party, shall strictly forbid its officials to commit such acts in the territory of the other Party. Should the citizens of either of the Contracting Parties in the territory of the other Party engage in any propaganda or campaign prohibited by the authorities of this latter Party, the Government of that territory shall have the...‎
Seite 11 - The English, pursuing as they do vital aims in Europe, will if necessary sacrifice certain interests in Asia in order to maintain the Convention with us. These circumstances we can naturally turn to our advantage, for instance in our Persian policy.‎
Seite 399 - TREATY BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY IN RESPECT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INDIA AND HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA...‎

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