This dramatic documentary tells a tragic story of Karim Khakimov, a Muslim who joined the Bolsheviks and became Lenin's key diplomatic envoy to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

In the 1920s the Soviets made a huge effort to export the Communist Revolution to the Middle East and to turn Middle Eastern governments against Western powers. Khakimov succeeded in establishing good relations with the Saudi dynasty, and the Soviet Union became the first foreign power to recognise the nascent Saudi Kingdom in 1926.

Documentary film by Radik Kudoyarov

SCREENINGS

Projections de l'IISMM (EHESS, Paris) - Mercredi, 11 janvier 2012, de 18h30 à 20h45
organisées par Sabrina Mervin et Jean-Claude Penrad, en association avec le séminaire de l'IISMM "Religions et sociétés en Eurasie centrale (Russie, Caucase, Asie centrale) : histoire et anthropologie" (Anne Ducloux, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Alexandre Papas, Thierry Zarcone).
amphithéâtre de l'EHESS, 105 boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e
http://lettre.ehess.fr/3209

Thursday, 19 May 2011, 5-6 p.m.
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College,
62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
www.russianoxford.org/events/all/2011/05/19/all_273.html