Black Garden : Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War / Thomas de Waal.
Waal, Thomas de, author.
2013
DK699.N34
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Title Black Garden : Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War / Thomas de Waal.
Author Waal, Thomas de, author.
ISBN 9780814770825
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814770825.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 23 black and white illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814770825.001.0001 doi
Call Number DK699.N34
Dewey Decimal Classification 947.5408/54
Summary "Brilliant."-Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter."-The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been better described-or indeed, better explained...Offers a deeper and more compelling account of the conflict than anyone before."-Foreign Affairs Since its publication in 2003, the first edition of Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, spell the end the Soviet Union, and plunge a region of great strategic importance into a decade of turmoil. This important volume is both a careful reconstruction of the history of the Nagorny Karabakhconflict since 1988 and on-the-spot reporting of the convoluted aftermath. Part contemporary history, part travel book, part political analysis, the book is based on six months traveling through the south Caucasus, more than 120 original interviews in the region, Moscow, and Washington, and unique historical primary sources, such as Politburo archives. The historical chapters trace how the conflict lay unresolved in the Soviet era; how Armenian and Azerbaijani societies unfroze it; how the Politiburo failed to cope with the crisis; how the war was fought and ended; how the international community failed to sort out the conflict. What emerges is a complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice andconflict.The revised and updated 10th-year anniversary edition includes a new forward, a new chapter covering developments up to-2011, such as the election of new presidents in both countries, Azerbaijan's oil boom and the new arms race in the region, and a new conclusion, analysing the reasons for the intractability of the conflict and whether there are any prospects for its resolution. Telling the story of the first conflict to shake Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union, Black Garden remains a central account of the reality of the post-Soviet world.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Author's Note
Preface to the Revised Edition
Two Maps, of the South Caucasus and of Nagorny Karabakh
Introduction: Crossing the Line
1. February 1988: An Armenian Revolt
2. February 1988: Azerbaijan: Puzzlement and Pogroms
3. Shusha: The Neighbors' Tale
4. 1988-1989: An Armenian Crisis
5. Yerevan: Mysteries of the East
6. 1988-1990: An Azerbaijani Tragedy
7. Baku: An Eventful History
8. 1990-1991: A Soviet Civil War
9. Divisions: A Twentieth-Century Story
10. Hurekavank: The Unpredictable Past
11. August 1991-May 1992: War Breaks Out
12. Shusha: The Last Citadel
13. June 1992-September 1993: Escalation
14. Sabirabad: The Children's Republic
15. September 1993-May 1994: Exhaustion
16. Stepanakert: A State Apart
17. 1994-2001: No War, No Peace
18. Sadakhlo: "They Fight, We Don't"
19. 2001-2012: Deadlock and Estrangement
Conclusion: Seeking Peace in Karabakh
Appendix 1: Statistics
Appendix 2: Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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