Sovyet Rusya Ve İtalya Gezilerinin Türk Siyasal Yaşamina Etkisi (1930-1932)
The Impact of Soviet Russia and Italy Trips Upon the Turkish Political Life (1930-1932)

Summary/Abstract: The trips to Soviet Russia and Italy between the years 1930 and 1932 were influential on economical and cultural fields as well as on political field. Both of those states could resist the tough economical conditions created by the global economic crisis carrying out statist policies. This success also attracted crisis-torn Turkey and Turkish intelligentsia. Turkey welcomed the year 1930 under the influence of global economic crisis. Free Republican Party attempt and events in Menemen proved that the regime had not been constructed well and had not been adopted sufficiently by the mass of people. In this respect, 1930s in Turkey were the years of economical, political, cultural and social construction of the system. Government, in the need of intensive re-construction, sought successful models for the young Republic. Soviet Russia and Italy were two outstanding models for Turkey in terms of their success in both economics and politics, and especially in nation-state construction. Those trips had an important place in both discovering the best model for the young republic in the construction of nation state and being the source of information for the public about different regimes and countries. Travel books, which are created as a result of interest in another world, are written out to tell about the visited places; and these books are very important texts in historiography, especially in composing the socio-economical and socio-cultural history of thought. In this article the trips to Soviet Russia and Italy between the years 1930 and 1932, analyze impressions to the development of political and cultural thought born within the period of transition in the construction of nation state.

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