The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most important turning points in the political and intellectual history of Eurasia, the consequences of which were reflected not only in the political arena, but also in scientific and research fields such as Iranology. In the meantime, part of the studies of Russian Iranologists and, subsequently, of the Iranologists of the Soviet Union were dedicated to the study of Kurdish studies. People such as: Alexander Augustus Zhaba, Valentin Alekseevich Zhukovsky, Nikolai Yakovlevich Mar, Yusuf Abgarovich Orbeli, Vladimir Feodorovich Minorsky… have done valuable work on Kurdish studies. The main issue of this research is to examine the relationship of Russian Iranologists' Kurdish studies with ideological and institutional developments in the first half of the twentieth century and to assess the extent to which these studies were influenced by Soviet policies. The question arises as to whether Russian Kurdish studies in the post-revolutionary period broke away from the classical tradition of Iranology or were they a continuation of it.

The research findings show that Russian Kurdish studies after 1917 was not uniform and completely ideological, but rather developed at least three major tendencies within itself: first, the continuation of the Iranological tradition that studied the Kurds within the historical and linguistic framework of the Iranian world; second, the ideological tendency influenced by the Marxist policy of the Soviet Union that emphasized the prominence of an independent ethnic identity; and third, an approach that was unintentionally influenced by the 1917 Revolution.