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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Выходит далее, что невозможно больше по-старому обходиться тем минимумом старых инженерно-технических сил, который мы наследовали от буржуазной России...
It also turns out to be impossible to continue to get by with the minimal old engineering and technical resources that we inherited from bourgeois Russia...

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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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Religious Boards of Transcaucasian Muslims in the Russian Empire, 19-20th centuries

An anthology of documents reflecting the process of Islam’s evolution in the Russian Empire, in particular its institutionalization in the...