Smokestacks and Pipelines: Russian-Turkish Relations and the Persistence of Economic Development
Journal: Diplomatic History
Year: 2020

When Aleksei Kosygin visited Turkey in 1975 for the inaugural firing of a massive Soviet-built steelworks, he laid out an ideologically charged vision of development: "unlike the Americans with their Coca-Cola factories, we contribute to industrialization." 1 The Soviet chairman of the council of ministers picked an unusual audience for his disparagement of the United States. Even though Washington had recently imposed an arms embargo in response to Ankara's intervention on Cyprus, Turkey was st