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Anatolia, where peasant holdings had traditionally prevailed  the... [DOC] [TLE] The USSR, Mustafa Kemal and reactionary anti-imperialism, part 2 ... [PAR] May 17, 2010 ... ... strange bedfellows than the Soviet-Turkish ties in the early 1920s.