"Black Garden" is a study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, got sucked into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, bringing to an end the Soviet Union, and plaguing a region of great strategic importance. It cuts between a careful reconstruction of the history of Nagorny Karabakh conflict since 1988 and on ...
A history of the civil war in southern Russia's Muslim Chechnya region, which has cost at least 60,000 deaths since 1994. Gall and de Waal are journalists who reported on the region from 1994 to 1996.
The first account written by a Russian woman of the Chechen conflict, "A Dirty War" is an edgy and intense study of a country in crisis. Exasperated at the Russian government's attempt to manipulate media coverage of the war in Chechnya, journalist Anna Politkovskaya set off for the front line to report back and keep events in the public eye. In a ...
Since the conflict started in Chechnya contrasting images and messages about the Chechen people have been presented. This book aims to explain these contradictory images and place them in their context, explaining the history of the region and its troubled relations with Russia.
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Meyer, Karl E. (Ed. ); Chace, James; Crossette, Barbara; Kumar, Radha; Gause, F. Gregory III; Mason, Whit; De Waal, Thomas;...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Q Corporation
Date Published: 2002
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Previous owner's address label on back of wraps. Wraps have light shelf wear.; Contents: Chace, "Imperial America & the Common Interest"; Crossette (Sri Lanka) and Kumar (Kashmir), "Untying South Asia's Knots"; Gause, "Saudi Arabia: A Cautionary Tale"; Mason, "Iran's Simmering Discontent"; de Waal, "Reinventing the Caucasus"; Davis, "'A' Is for Allah"; Rieff, "The Bureaucrat of Torture"; Feifer, "Uzbekistan's Eternal ... read more
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