Turkey And The Soviet Union During World War Ii : Diplomacy, Discord And International Relations
I.B. Tauris
ISBN13:
9781788311342
$177.00
Based on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci's study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II. Turkish-Russian relations have a long history of conflict. Under Ataturk relations improved he was a master 'balancer' of the great powers. During the Second World War, however, relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union plunged to several degrees below zero, as Ottoman-era Russophobia began to take hold in Turkish elite circles. For the Russians, hostility was based on long-term apathy stemming from the enormous German investment in the Ottoman Empire; for the Turks, on the fear of Russian territorial ambitions. This book offers a new interpretation of how Russian foreign policy drove Turkey into a peculiar neutrality in the Second World War, and eventually into NATO. Onur Isci argues that this was a great reversal of Ataturk-era policies, and that it was the burden of history, not realpolitik, that caused the move to the west during the Second World War.
- | Author: Onur Isci
- | Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 257 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1788311345
- | ISBN-13: 9781788311342
- Author:
- Onur Isci
- Publisher:
- I.B. Tauris
- Publication Date:
- Nov 28, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 257 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1788311345
- ISBN-13:
- 9781788311342