Browsing by Subject "Soviet Russia"

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The Crimea and the Volga basin during the famine of 1921-1922 and the relief from Turkey
(Turkish Historical Society, 2011) Kirimli, H.
In 1921-1922 a devastating famine occurred in Soviet Russia. The Volga-Ural basin and the Crimea, with their large Turkic populations, were among the hardest hit regions. The Bolshevik authorities, though most reluctantly, were compelled to seek foreign aid. Accordingly, the local leaderships of the Volga-Ural basin and the Crimea turned Turkey asking for urgent relief. Notwithstanding the fact that Turkey (rather the nationalist government in Ankara) was then in the midst of a war of independence with enormous depravities, a very impressive campaign of relief was organized throughout Anatolia. At the very time, the Turkish army launched its final offensive against the Greek forces, the representatives of the Ankara government were carrying the modest, though meaningful, aid of the Anatolian Turks to their brethren in the North.
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Human rights movements in Soviet Russia (1969-1980) : ideas, norms and the state
(2008) Demirtaş, Melih
This thesis attempts to shed light on the difficulties of defending the international norms of the idea of human rights against the dominance of the state and its interests, which are explained essentially by the rationalists and the political realists in domestic and international affairs, by focusing the clash between the Soviet state and the Soviet (Russian) dissidents throughout the détente period (1969-1980). The history of prominent dissident activities in Soviet Russia began during the deStalinization period under the Khrushchev administration (1956-1964). However, the human rights movement in the Soviet Union was affected to a great extent by the international environment in 1970s during which time norms became more significant in bilateral relations, and human rights-idea began to constitute the source of a normative challenge to pure rationalist/realist explanations based on power, selfinterest and anarchy. In this regard, the primary purpose of adopting a constructivist perspective regarding the internationalization of human rights is to analyze the dissidence activities nurtured by the international norms and principles of human rights in Soviet Russia. Thus, the impacts of oppositions and responses supported by domestic and international factors within the state can be understood congruent with the policy changes, continuities, and stalemates. While the Soviet state’s fundamental response to these activities is interpreted as an amalgam of ideology, a priori principles and state-interests, the main argument of this thesis does not challenge the explanatory power of the rationalist/realist line in comprehending the dominance of the state over the dissidents and human rights defenders.
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Soğuk savaş dönemi çekişmelerine bir örnek: U 2 Krizi
(Bilkent University, 2018) Gündoğdu, Uğur; Balatlı, Tugay; Yazgan, Bilge Tuğçe; Buyurgan, Bora
Amerika ve Sovyet Rusya’yı karşı karşıya getiren, yakın tarihe “U-2 Uçak Krizi” olarak geçen hadisenin ortaya çıkışında iki süper güç arasındaki stratejik mücadele yatmaktadır. Amerika’nın Sovyetlere karşı duyduğu güvensizlik, krizin patlak vermesinde baş etken olarak gösterilmektir. 1 Mayıs 1960 tarihinde Türkiye’den kalkan U-2 casus uçağının Sovyet topraklarında düşürülmesinin etkileri bu projede Türk basınına yansımalarıyla beraber incelenecektir.