The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh From Secession to Republic
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 pogrom...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2001, 2001
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 |
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Physical Description: | XV, 267 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9780230508965 |