Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus

Periphery Unbound, 1920-29

Dr Sara G. Brinegar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-28667-2 (ISBN)

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Sara G. Brinegar’s book is the first to show how the politics of oil intersected with the establishment of Soviet power in the Caucasus; it reveals how the Soviets cooperated and negotiated with the local elite, rather than merely subsuming them. More broadly, Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus demonstrates not only how the Bolsheviks understood and exploited oil, but how the needs of the industry shaped Bolshevik policy.

Brinegar reflects on the huge geopolitical importance of oil at the end of World War I and the Russian Civil War. She discusses how the reserves sitting idle in the oil fields of Baku, the capital of the newly independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and the center of the fallen empire’s oil reserves were no exception to this. With the Soviet leadership in Moscow intent on capturing the fields in the first few months of 1920, this book examines the Soviet project to rebuild Baku’s oil industry in the aftermath of these wars and the political significance of oil in the formation of the Soviet Union.

Sara G. Brinegar is an independent scholar based in the USA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the recipient of SSRC and Fulbright fellowships. She was previously Digital Pedagogy Fellow and Freelance Researcher at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and held a two-year faculty fellowship at Yale University’s European Studies Council.

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Soviet Invasion of Baku
2. Revolution in the Muslim East
3. Bolsheviks on the World Stage
4. On the Revolution in the Provinces
5. The Bolsheviks go into the Oil Business
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.2025
Zusatzinfo	8 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-350-28667-2 / 1350286672
ISBN-13	978-1-350-28667-2 / 9781350286672
Zustand	Neuware