Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Author(s): Reşat ArımSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Dış Politika Enstitüsü
Summary/Abstract: Azerbaijan is the most populated and richest country in Southern Caucasus region.Its people is ethnicly and linguisticly related to Turks and they were part of the Great Seljuk Empire. The other part of the Azeri population is in Iran. They constitute a high proportion of Iran’s population. The withdrawal of Russian troops after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 allowed northern Azerbaijan to become an independent state and this was rather short lived and in 1922 the Bolsheviks united the three independent republics in the Caucasus into the Transcaucasus Federation of Socialist Republics which became the basic foundation of the USSR. Stalin in 1936 disbanded the Transcaucasus Federation and redrew the state line. Azebaijan like the other two countries of the region became a federated republic of the Soviet Union.
Journal: Dış Politika
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 47-55
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English