Making an Anti-imperialist Empire: Revolutionary Russia and the Muslim World
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97534375287. Professor Norihiro Naganawa will present on his ongoing book project, which explores early Soviet Russia’s engagement with Central Asia, Iran and the Red Sea through a biography of one Tatar revolutionary and Soviet diplomat, Karim Abdraufovich Khakimov (1890-1938). With Putin’s Russia returning to the Middle East against a backdrop…