[4] During Mehdiyev's time in Moscow in 1969, Heydar Aliyev was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party.

Mehdiyev returned immediately to Baku having been granted a job as a professor in the Scientific Communism Department of Azerbaijan State University.

[6] In 1974, Mehdiyev was appointed as a lecturer in the Ideology and Propaganda department as well as assistant director of the Science and Education committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party.

[7] In 1988, Mehdiyev was made department director of the Institute of Political Research for the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

This move was thought to be partially influenced by Aliyev's desire to keep a close-knit group of Nakhchivan advisors to consolidate power in the region.

These include: Interethnic relations at the end of the 20th century (his second doctoral thesis), Realities of Azerbaijani genocide, Dialectics of development of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan: historical heritage and philosophy of independence, Philosophy textbook, Azerbaijan: Calls for globalization, Parliament elections of 2005: preliminary analysis, Ideas, opening the paths to civil society, On the path of national ideology, statehood and independence in two volumes, On the path to democracy, and Determining the development strategy: modernization course.