Soviet Russia in the struggle for the "Afghan corridor" (1919-1925) Collection of documents

The collection of documents covers the attempts of Soviet Russia and the Comintern to turn Afghanistan into a bridgehead for the fight against British India, as well as the countermeasures of England in the international arena and in the Pashtun tribe zone on the approaches to its main colony. The topic is difficult for researchers, since restrictions in domestic and foreign archives still create great difficulties in studying secret diplomacy in Afghanistan. The installation of the Bolsheviks to create at the end of the Civil War of the Eastern Front the World Revolution on the approaches to British India to a large extent predetermined the first steps of Soviet diplomacy in the Middle East and Central Asia in 1919-1925. A large -scale attempt to export the revolution to the neighboring Soviet Russia of the East of the East left a significant layer of documents, the introduction of which is one of the priority tasks of Russian orientalists into scientific circulation. Documents published in the collection make it possible to advance significantly in solving this problem