Soviet Kurdish Studies and Policies: The Problem of Agents and Agency
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Asian and African Studies
Year: 2024

The modern Kurdish national movement since its inception constantly interacted with the regional and global powers and was sporadically instrumentalised by them. The Soviet state interacted especially intensively with the Kurdish political projects, e. g., by creating the Kurdish district known as Red Kurdistan in the Caucasus in the 1920s, involvement in the establishment of the so-called Mahabad republic in Iran in 1946, and contradictory relations with Mustafa Barzani’ movement in Iraq in the