Religion, diplomacy and identity. Some remarks on the ayatollah Khomeini’s letter to Gorbachev

Autor

  • Marcin Rzepka Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/ochc.1034

Słowa kluczowe:

Khomeini, Iran, Gorbachev, Soviet Union, letter

Abstrakt

The letter sent by Ayatollah Khomeini to Gorbachev seems to be important in modern Iranian historiography presenting Khomeini as an influential and prophet-like “father of the revolution”. The letter brings Khomeini’s personal insights into the situation of the Soviet Union offering to its leader Islam as the only solution for internal and external problems. The letter in fact may be consider an example or rather a product of Iranian political culture, an attempt to return to the global and finally as a Khomeini’s answer to history.

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Opublikowane

2013-12-03