{"product_id":"turkey-and-the-soviet-union-during-world-war-ii-diplomacy-discord-and-international-relations-9780755636624","title":"Turkey and the Soviet Union During World War II: Diplomacy, Discord and International Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Onur Isci\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci's study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II. Turkish-Russian relations have a long history of conflict. Under Ataturk relations improved - he was a master 'balancer' of the great powers. During the Second World War, however, relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union plunged to several degrees below zero, as Ottoman-era Russophobia began to take hold in Turkish elite circles. For the Russians, hostility was based on long-term apathy stemming from the enormous German investment in the Ottoman Empire; for the Turks, on the fear of Russian territorial ambitions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a new interpretation of how Russian foreign policy drove Turkey into a peculiar neutrality in the Second World War, and eventually into NATO. Onur Isci argues that this was a great reversal of Ataturk-era policies, and that it was the burden of history, not realpolitik, that caused the move to the west during the Second World War.","brand":"I. B. Tauris \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45088075186327,"sku":"9780755636624","price":4220.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780755636624.webp?v=1767898986","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/turkey-and-the-soviet-union-during-world-war-ii-diplomacy-discord-and-international-relations-9780755636624","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}