{"product_id":"turkey-and-the-soviet-union-during-world-war-ii","title":"Turkey and the Soviet Union During World War II","description":"\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226425479512,"sku":"9780755636624","price":41.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780755636624_e8837513-1c47-4111-9932-637e12ffa7ef.jpg?v=1770279318","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/turkey-and-the-soviet-union-during-world-war-ii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}