Denis V. Volkov is Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern History at the University of Manchester. He spent almost fifteen years in Iran, working in the field of interstate economic cooperation between Russia and Iran. His research interests include the history and the present of Russo-Iranian relations, Russia's Oriental studies, intellectual history, Russian and Iranian nationalism, and, particularly, Russian émigré Orientalists. His most recent publications are 'Vladimir Minorsky (1877-1966) and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-8), or The Centenary of 'Minorsky's Frontier',' in Russians in Iran: Diplomacy and Power in Iran in the Qajar Era and Beyond, edited by Rudolph Matthee and Elena Andreeva (2018), and 'War and Peace in the Other and the Self: Iran through the eyes of Russian spies' in the journal Cahiers de Studia Iranica (2018).
A note of transliteration
Alphabetical list of abbreviations and acronyms
Introduction
1. Foucauldian notions and their applicability to the Russian case
2. Organisational set-up of oriental studies in late Imperial Russia
3. Organisational set-up of early Soviet Oriental studies (1917-41)
4. Between cultures and states: Russian orientologists and Russia's Eastern policy
5. The birth and death of red orientalism (1917-41)
General conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
List of archives used for research
Index.
