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The Kurdish Republic of 1946


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Editor : Oxford University Press Date & Place : 1963, London
Preface : Pages : 142
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Language : EnglishFormat : 140x215 mm
FIKP's Code : Lp. Gen. 83Theme : History

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The Kurdish Republic of 1946

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The Kurdish Republic of 1946

This book gives the first complete account of the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, created in 1946 in north-west Iran in the shadow of the Soviet-inspired `autonomous' Republic of Iranian Azerbaijan. Both republics came into being after the Second World War but during the Soviet occupation of northern Persia under the Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of 1942, and both collapsed seven months after the withdrawal of Rus¬sian troops in May 1946. The scarcity of information about this obscure series of events, which cannot be pieced together from written sources since the Kurds concerned destroyed all written evidence of their involve¬ment, has hitherto given rise to a good deal of confusion, especially regarding the role of the Soviet Union, the relations between Azerbaijan and Kurdistan, the nature of Kurdish nationalism, and the personality of the principal Kurdish leaders, including Qazi Muhammad of Mahabad and the Iraqi Kurd, Mulla Mustafa Barzani.

The author, who is a member of the United States Foreign Service, gather¬ed the material for this study during 1954-5 when he was stationed at Kurkuk in Iraq and during 1959-61 when living in Tabriz. He was able to interview a number of Kurds, Turks, Persians, and Arabs who recalled the events of 1946-7. He thus throws new light not only on the Mahabad Republic but on the Kurdish nationalist move¬ment, which still remains a live issue, as the Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq in 1961-2 bears witness.


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The Kurdish Republic of 1946

WILLIAM EAGLETON JR
Issued under the auspices of the
Royal Institute of International Affairs

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO 1963,
Printed in Great Britain

Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C.4
GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON
BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI LAHORE DACCA
CAPE TOWN SALISBURY NAIROBI IBADAN ACCRA
KUALA LUMPUR HONG KONG

© Royal Institute of International Affairs 1963

MIDDLE EASTERN MONOGRAPHS: 5
THE KURDISH REPUBLIC OF 1946
 
The Royal Institute of International Affairs is an unofficial
and non-political body, founded in 1920 to encourage and
facilitate the scientific study of international questions. The
Institute, as such, is precluded by the terms of its Royal
Charter from expressing an opinion on any aspect of inter
national affairs. Any opinions expressed in this publication
are not, therefore, those of the Institute.

MIDDLE EASTERN MONOGRAPHS

In order to illuminate the background to international relations in the area, the Royal Institute of International Affairs proposes to publish from time to time under this general title studies of the modern society of the Middle East—its ideas and beliefs, its economic activities, its social and political institutions and important aspects of its recent history. All will be based on first-hand investigation or original thought, and all will be concerned, in their different ways, with a single theme: the vast, rapid and continuing change in Middle Eastern society in modern times, and the problems it poses for the Middle Eastern peoples and for those who have interests among them.

The following have already been published in the series:
1 The Labour Movement in the Sudan, 1946-1955. By the late Saad éd din Fawzi (1957, out of print)
2 Egypt in the Sudan, 1820-1881. By Richard Hill (1959)
3 The Intellectual Origins of Egyptian Nationalism. By Jamal Mohammed Ahmed (196o)
4 A History 0f Landownership in Modern Egypt, 1800-1950. By Gabriel Baer (1962)

31 May 1962          Chatham House




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