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There are seven folders of material covering the draft manuscript and research notes for a book that Cloake intended to publish on the events leading up to Azerbaijan Crisis of 1945-47, the crisis itself, and its aftermath. According to the donor, his book was researched during Cloake's time at the London School of Economics, 1972-1973.

This draft is not fully complete but consists of 14 chapters/ partial chapters plus appendices and bibliographical material. The manuscript is a detailed historical narrative of the events associated with the Azerbaijan crisis.The draft consists of handwritten notes with some additional hand-drawn maps. The chapters are:
Book I The Pre-History,
Chapter 1 The Great Game: Russian Encroachment and British Reaction.
Chapter 2 Constitutional Revolution; Fabric and the Nationalists; Russian occupation and war
Chapter 3 Intervention and Communist Experiment: The Persian Socialist Soviet Republic and other rebellions
Chapter 4 Between the wars: Growing Independence

Book II Wartime,
Chapter 5 Occupation 1941
Chapter 6, From Tripartite Alliance to Tripartitie Declaration: 1942-3
Chapter 7 1944: The Oil Concession Crisis
Chapter 8 The Scene is Set: 1945

Book 3 The Crisis,
Chapter 9 Crisis Events, November - December 1945
Chapter 10 Crisis Events, January - March 1946
Chapter 11 Crisis Events, April - June 1946
Chapter 12 Crisis Events, July - October 1946
Chapter 13 Crisis Events, October 1946 - March 1947
Chapter 14 The Aftermath, 1947-1950

Supplementary material for Book 4,
The Preview and Bibliography