Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991: Soviet Foreign Policy, Turkey and Communism

by Gokay; Bulent

• ISBN13: 9780415348492
• ISBN10: 0415348498
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Gokay provides an enlightening book that traces the relationship between the Soviet Union and Turkey on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and the Turkish Communist Party on the other, from the consolidation of the communist regime in Moscow until its fall. The book considers how 'Soviet Eastern Policy' was formed, how it changed over time, what the Soviet leaders hoped to gain in Turkey, and what impact Soviet policy had on the development of the Turkish communist movement. It is a valuable resource for students and scholars with an interest in Russian and Soviet politics and international relations.

Author Biography

Bulent Gokay is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Keele University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Abbreviations and terms	xii
1 Introduction	1	(13)
Understanding Soviet foreign policy	3	(3)
'Soviet Eastern policy'	6	(3)
Soviet Eastern policy and Turkey	9	(5)
2 The opening act	14	(22)
End of the First World War: the Soviet Union and Turkey	14	(2)
Initial contacts	16	(4)
A strong wind blows from the East	20	(3)
Murder in the Black Sea	23	(7)
A British spy in Ankara	30	(2)
Budu Mdivani	32	(4)
3 The inter-war years	36	(12)
The 1925 Kurdish Revolt and the beginning of illegality for the communists	39	(3)
Nazim Hikmet: poet of revolution	42	(2)
Sefik Husnü's Aydinlik and the Komintern	44	(4)
4 The Second World War years	48	(15)
Turkish 'neutrality'	50	(6)
Struggle against fascism and single-party dictatorship, 1943-46	56	(3)
Stalin: the 'new' Tsar decides to take the Straits	59	(4)
5 The Cold War starts	63	(18)
Turning Turkey into a 'Little America'	71	(1)
Turkish troops in Korea and suppression of communists at home	72	(4)
Turkish 'contra-guerrillas' and 'revolution by radio'	76	(5)
6 The door opens	81	(17)
The 27 May 1960 military coup	86	(2)
A brave new beginning: a legal socialist party, 1961-71	88	(2)
The 1968 generation in Turkey	90	(3)
Revolutionary trade unions	93	(2)
The military coup of 1971	95	(3)
7 The 1974-80 period	98	(13)
1973: a great leap forward	100	(2)
Cyprus and the Turkish communists	102	(5)
May Day 1977 and 'deep state'	107	(1)
'Communist police' — towards a civil war, 1978-79	108	(3)
8 Finale: 'Workers of the world, we're sorry'	111	(8)
The military coup of September 1980	113	(2)
The end of the Party	115	(2)
Communism in Turkey in retrospect	117	(2)
Appendices	119	(24)
1 Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East	119	(5)
2 TKP Central Committee's May Day Statement, 1930	124	(1)
3 Statement of the new policy of the TKP, 1936	125	(1)
4 A British secret report on 'Communism in Turkey', 1951	126	(6)
5 Nazim's poem on Hacioglu Salih	132	(1)
6 A member of the TKP describes why he joined the Party	133	(2)
7 Report of the ILO on members of the DISK in prison	135	(8)
Illustrations	143	(8)
Notes	151	(18)
Select bibliography	169	(11)
Index	180