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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1963</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>OCTOBERREVOLUTION OVER THE CASPIAN SEA: THE SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF GILANASEPILOGUE OF RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR IN THE NEAREAST</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>OCTOBERREVOLUTION OVER THE CASPIAN SEA: THE SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF GILANASEPILOGUE OF RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR IN THE NEAREAST</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Lanza</surname><given-names>Daniele</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Lanza</surname><given-names>Daniele</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>dnl.lanza@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3194" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff3194"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" /><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-10"><day>10</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><fpage>30</fpage><lpage>33</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2020/issue/4/article/1963">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2020/issue/4/article/1963</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(65)/30-33.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(65)/30-33.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The goal is to point out some key points in the history of Russian geopolitical and cultural influence in the iranic area through the XX century, developed by revolutionary spirit of the new soviet state. In the context of the Russian revolution and civil war, can be seen how the relationship between the new multinational state and its vast politic periphery: the national states of the near and fat east will be the new field of confrontation between the emerging socialist power and the western world. In first place the near east around Caucasus reatains its vital strategic value, so a further developement of the «great game» that charachterized the relations between Russian and British Empire through the XIX century. How the soviet ideology penetrated in Iran.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The goal is to point out some key points in the history of Russian geopolitical and cultural influence in the iranic area through the XX century, developed by revolutionary spirit of the new soviet state. In the context of the Russian revolution and civil war, can be seen how the relationship between the new multinational state and its vast politic periphery: the national states of the near and fat east will be the new field of confrontation between the emerging socialist power and the western world. In first place the near east around Caucasus reatains its vital strategic value, so a further developement of the «great game» that charachterized the relations between Russian and British Empire through the XIX century. How the soviet ideology penetrated in Iran.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Iran</kwd><kwd>Persia</kwd><kwd>Safavid State</kwd><kwd>Soviet Union</kwd><kwd>geopolitics</kwd><kwd>revolution</kwd><kwd>socialism</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Iran</kwd><kwd>Persia</kwd><kwd>Safavid State</kwd><kwd>Soviet Union</kwd><kwd>geopolitics</kwd><kwd>revolution</kwd><kwd>socialism</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>