Kurds and the state in Iran [electronic resource] : the making of Kurdish identity / Abbas Vali.
In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative influence on the subsequent development of Kurdish nationa...
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| Other title: | Making of Kurdish identity |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2011.
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| Series: | International library of Iranian studies ;
v. 36. |
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| Summary: | In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative influence on the subsequent development of Kurdish nationalist movements in Iran and the wider region. Here, Abbas Vali disputes the conventional view that the Kurdish Republic was the result of a Soviet conspiracy to dismember Iran, a side-effect of the Cold War. Instead he emphasizes the diversity of the internal Iranian and Kurdish factors that led to t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857720337 0857720333 1283380803 9781283380805 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |