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Photograph of Azadi Tower

Middle East

Iran

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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The Iran/Azerbaijian Crisis, 1946

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Iran

Iranian Azerbaijan

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People's Party of Iran (Tudeh)

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Iran's Tudeh Party

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Bagirov, Mir Dzhafar Abbas

1896- 1956

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Eastern Europe

Azerbaijan

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Radmanesh, Reza

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Stalin, Joseph

1879- 1953

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Kozlov, I.

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Maslennikov, Ivan I.

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Aerial view of National Mall

North America

United States

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Eastern Europe

Romania

Yasser Arafat and Nicolae Ceausescu

Ceausescu's Diplomacy in the Middle East

Truman with Attlee and Stalin at Potsdam

Cold War Origins

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November 21, 1945	Telegram from Baku to Moscow, 'The Situation in Iranian Azerbaijan' Telegram to top Soviet officials describing strikes made by Azerbaijani partisans against Iranian gendarmerie and popular rallies throughout Iranian Azerbaijan.
November 20, 1945	Telegram from Baku to Moscow, 'Additional Information Received from Tabriz' Telegram to top Soviet officials discussing Iranian troop operations against Azerbaijani partisans, both of which are asking the Soviets for assistance. States that orders have been given for Soviet forces to act against Iranian ones only under extreme necessity.
March 18, 1944	Letter, Dimitrov to Molotov, 'The Situation in the People's Party of Iran' Message from Dimitrov to Molotov about the 1944 Iranian elections and the upcoming merger of the country's trade unions. Dimitrov attributes the People's Party's loss in the election to corruption among its opponents, but states that the campaign for the People's Party was successful in introducing its ideas to Iranian citizens.
December 9, 1941	Cable from Dimitrov to Stalin, Molotov, Beria, and Malenkov Cable to top Soviet officials advising against reviving the Communist Party of Iran, and instead advising its members to work through the People's Party. Kuybyshev believes the Communist Party would be too small to be significant, and would give British and Nazi agents in Iran an opportunity to turn Iranian elites against the Soviet Union.
July 14, 1945	Secret Soviet Instructions, 'Measures to Carry out Special Assignments throughout Southern Azerbaijan and the Northern Provinces of Iran' Soviet document with instructions on creating the Azerbaijan Democratic Party in northern Iran in an attempt to set the basis for a separatist movement.
July 6, 1945	Decree of the CC CPSU Politburo to Mir Bagirov CC Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, 'Measures to Organize a Separatist Movement in Southern Azerbaijan and Other Provinces of Northern Iran' The Soviet leadership informs the leadership of the CPAz CC of the decisions taken regarding the need to organize a separatist movement in Northern Iran. The document sets up a step by step plan to insure that the population in Northern Iran can be manipulated to declare independence and join the Azerbaijan SSR.
June 21, 1945	Decree of the GOKO [State Defense Committee] No. 9168SS, 'Geological Prospecting Work for Oil in Northern Iran' Decree ordering '"Azneft" [Azerbaijani Oil] Association to supervise geological prospecting for oil deposits in northern Iran under the direction of Narkomneft, the USSR Oil Ministry.