Kurdish Revolts in Soviet State Sources

Determinations and evaluations, articles and reports made in those days about the Soviet Union, the world's first socialist state, the Kurdish rebellions in Turkey, the Republican administration and national issues...

Some of the documents included in this book and published for the first time in Turkey are as follows:

Barzani separatism in the First World War - his relations with Tsarist Russia and the British, testimonies of Kurdish leaders about Barzani's relations with Armenian gangs,

Kurdish rebellions during the War of Independence - Soviet Military Intelligence Reports, Comintern findings, evaluations of the Communist parties of Georgia and Azerbaijan,

Sheikh Said Rebellion - Lesson given at the Party School, evaluations of the Soviet State's media organ Izvestia and Communist Party's media organ Pravda, determinations of Zarya Vostoka, the main media organ of the South Caucasus, attitudes of the Comintern and Turkish communists,

Ağrı Rebellion - Levin's article: "Conflict Between the Nationalization Process and Tribal Structure", the Soviets' view of the Hoybun organization, evaluations of the Ağrı Rebellion, Comintern and TKP in the Soviet press,

Dersim Rebellion - The process leading to the rebellion and Soviet and Comintern evaluations about the rebellion.