Russia and Iran in the great game

انگليسي.

1.Setting the stage.- 2.Orientalism Russian style.- The concept of Orientalism: Western European version.- Russian national identity and Russian Orientalism.- 3.Overview of the Russian travelogues and their authors.- Pre-nineteenth Century Russian travelogues about Iran.- The main features of the Russian travelogues about Iran in the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries.- The authors of the travelogues.- 4.The travelers’ missions in Iran.- Russian military aims and activities in Iran.- Russian diplomacy in Iran.- Russian emigrants in Iran.- Russian trade in Iran.- 5.The travelers’ self-representation vis-a-vis the Oriental "other" and the British "self".- 6.The "travelees": representation of Iran and her people by the Russian travelers.- "Power of the gaze".- The "travelees": manners and morals.- 7.The "travelees": education, culture and society.- The Iranian army.- Lack of education.- Iranian medicine.- Iranian arts and architecture.- Iran as "a country of ruins".- 8.Islam as perceived by the Russian travelers.- Mullahs, dervishes and sayyeds.- Shii and Sunni Muslims.- Iranians and "infidels".- Muslim customs and rituals.- 9.Gender and ethnicity.- Iranian women and prosaic harems.- The travelers’ religious and ethnic preferences.- 10.Travelers and travelees: Russians through Iranian eyes as imagined by the travelers (discourse with themselves).- Anti-Romanticism.- Conclusion.- Appendix: Iran before World War I.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-268) and index..