Using recently declassified Soviet documents, Jamil Hasanli examines Soviet involvement in the anti-China rebellion in East Turkistan during the 1930’s and 1940’s.

Using recently declassified Soviet documents, Jamil Hasanli examines Soviet involvement in the anti-China rebellion in East Turkistan. Hasanli takes readers back to the early 1930s when the Turkic national movement was suppressed by the Soviet government and the USSR. Hasanli deftly illustrates how Stalin’s policies toward the movement changed after the turning point of World War II and the treachery of Sheng Shicai, leading up to the 1944 establishment of the Eastern Turkistan Republic and the start of the Cold War.

Chapter 1: National Movement in Eastern Turkistan and Moscow’s Growing Influence in

Xinjiang (1930–1934)

Chapter 2: Strengthening of Soviet Control over Eastern Turkistan (1934–1939)

Chapter 3: Deepening of Crisis in Soviet-Xinjiang Relations and Downfall of the Sheng

Government

Chapter 4: Activation of Moscow’s Policy in Xinjiang and Creation of the Eastern Turkistan

Republic (1944–1945)

Chapter 5: The Urumqi Agreement and Establishment of a Coalition Government in Xinjiang

(1946–1947)

Chapter 6: New Wave of Soviet Activities in Xinjiang and Communist Victory in China (1947–

1949)