Beschreibung:
The first major territorial struggle in the late Soviet period involved Nagorno-Karabagh, an Armenian inhabited territory that had been assigned to the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. In the early 1920s. Armenian protests calling for reunification with Armenia in 1988 led to Azerbaijani pogroms against Armenians and later to armed conflict that claimed over twenty thousand lives. The struggle remains unresolved. A distinguished group of historians and social scientists analyze the Karabagh struggle in this unique volume that covers one of the world's strategic, oil-rich regions.
1 First and only book to assess the Karabagh conflict over the entire post-Soviet period2 Up-to-date and on-the-spot: many of the contributors were eyewitnesses to events in Nagorno-Karabagh3 Demonstrates the impact of conflict on the oil-rich, strategically-sensitive area of the Caspian Sea
Preface Notes on the Contributors Map Introduction; L.Chorbaijian A People's Will: Armenian Irredentism over Nagorno-Karabagh; L.Papazian The Anguish of Karabagh: Pages from the Diary of Aramais (Misak Ter-Danielyan) 26 April-26 July 1919; R.Krikorian Civic Society Born in the Square: The Karabagh Movement in Perspective; L.H.Abrahamian 'We Are Our Mountains': Nation-as-Nature in the Armenian Struggle for Self-Determination, Nagorno-Karabagh; J.A.Kasparian The Diaspora and the Karabagh Movement: Opposition Politics between the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Armenian National Movement; R.Panossian Betrayed Promises of the Karabagh Movement: A Balance Sheet; M.Melkonian Possible Solutions to the Nagorno-Karabagh Problem: A Strategic Perspective; A.Aivazian Nagorno-Karabagh: International Political Dimensions; R.Giragosian Index