LESSONS OF HISTORY IN NEW MONOGRAPH
The book contains documents, photos and maps kept in archives and libraries in Azerbaijan, USA, Germany, Great Britain and other countries. The long-term research has allowed the scholar to throw light on the obscure pages of the one of the heaviest and most complicated periods of the Azerbaijan history by studying the factors conditioned the large states’ policy towards the country in 1914-1018, and their plans concerning North and South Azerbaijan.
While reading the book, one can take a clear view of the attempts by Turkish diplomacy to involve European states in liberation of Azerbaijan from colonial oppression, Russia’s fight against Islamists and Turkists, role of the Armenians in this struggle, Antanta member states’ support for separation of the South Caucasus from Russia, confrontation at the Caucasian Seym, Turkish Army’s offensive in the Caucasus and other historical, diplomatic and political events.
The documents presented including secret diplomatic correspondence allow a modern reader to realize the today’s role of the leading countries in the socio-political and economic life in our independent republic, find out the reason for the double standards policy towards our country. Azerbaijan has always been in the past and will continue to be the point of collision of the large states’ interests. They use every possible means to reach their goals, history repeats itself, it only remains for us to infer from its lessons, the book says.