Yu. N. TIKHONOV. GREAT POWER POLITICS IN AFGHANISTAN AND THE PASHTUN TRIBES (1919-1945)
Moscow-Lipetsk: Inform LLC, 2007. 382 p. At present, Russian historiography is in the process of rethinking the history of international relations, an important component of which was the foreign policy of the Russian Empire - Soviet Russia - USSR. Thanks to the new source base, stable trends in the diplomatic struggle of the great powers in the East in the XX century are revealed. Given the specifics of Soviet foreign policy actions in the 1920s and 1930s, researchers pay close attention to studying the activities of the Comintern in various regions of the world. page 203In this connection, the new book by Yu. N.Tikhonov pays considerable attention to the attempts of the Comintern to create an "Afghan corridor" for exporting the revolution to British India. Various subjects of cooperation between Eastern nationalists and the Comintern in Afghanistan have been repeatedly covered by Russian and foreign scientists. Yu. N. Tikhonov chose the "Pashtun" direction in the Comintern's activities as the subject of his research, which for a long time in Russian historiography for a number of reasons was not given due attention. The novelty of the issue and the extensive documentary base allowed the author to fill in a significant gap in the history of Soviet-Afghan relations and the "Big Game" in Central Asia. The concept of the monograph is based on an integrated approach: against the background of the struggle of Pashtun tribes against England and the political situation around Afghanistan, the attempts of the enemies of the British Empire to provoke a powerful armed uprising in India and Southern Afghanistan in order to bind a significant part of the British armed forces are traced. Coverage of the activities of Comintern structures provides a deeper understanding of the complexity of international relations in the Central Asian region. Yu. N. Tikhonov's research is based on a thorough study of archival documents, many of which were first introduced into scientific circula ... Read more
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