Russian-Arab Worlds

The roots of the Arab world''s current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer''s diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated cont...