BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 25. The book “Azerbaijani-Georgian Relations (1918-1922): A View Through the Prism of the Activities of Diplomatic Missions” by Fakhri Valeh oglu Hajiyev (Fakhri Valehoglu), Head of Apparatus of the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation, Doctor of Historical Sciences, has been published, TurkicWorld reports.
The first chapter of the voluminous monographic study, consisting of an “Introduction”, 5 chapters, 22 subsections, “Conclusion”, “Appendices” and “Bibliography”, comments on the military-political processes in the South Caucasus in 1917-1922. The following chapters comprehensively examine the political and diplomatic activities, structure, personnel, economic and financial support of the diplomatic missions of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic in Tiflis and Batumi, as well as the Georgian Democratic Republic in Azerbaijan in 1918-1922.
When writing the monograph, primary sources were used, primarily official correspondence, decrees, orders and reports stored in the archives of Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as materials from print media published in Azerbaijani, Georgian, Russian and English in the cities of Baku, Tiflis, Batum, Kutaisi and Akhaltsikhe during the period covered by the study, thereby introducing a large number of new sources and facts into scientific circulation. Thus, on the basis of rich factual material, the activities of the diplomatic missions that are the object of the study were comprehensively studied, and interesting facts concerning various spheres of Azerbaijani-Georgian relations were revealed.
The findings and results of the study can be used in studying and teaching the political history of the Caucasus from 1917 to 1922, especially the history of foreign policy, international relations and diplomacy of Azerbaijan and Georgia.
It should be noted that the monograph, published by the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation and the A.A. Bakikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, was recommended for publication by the decision of the Academic Council of the said institute.
