Soviet Foreign Policy and the Ottoman Empire toward the end of 1917 and in early 1918

Abstract

This study is devoted to Soviet foreign policy towards Ottoman Empire in the years 1917 and 1918. Following a short survey of contemporary research on these questions, the author focuses upon an analysis of goals which Soviet foreign policy pursued in relation to the Ottoman Empire in the period under research and problems involved with them which it had to face.

From this point of view he pays attention to both Soviet peace initiatives from November 1917 and, primarily, to the steps taken by Soviet Russia during the course of peace talks in Brest-Litovsk. In his conclusion the author outlines the three disputed issues of Soviet-Ottoman relationships at that time, which Soviet foreign policy failed to resolve successfully.

Keywords

• Soviet Russia
• the Ottoman Empire
• foreign policy
• relationships
• World War I, the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1917 - 1918