The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: From Secession to Republic

by Levon Chorbajian

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349415946
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/08/2001
Edition description:	1st ed. 2001
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

LEVON ABRAHAMIAN Anthropologist, Armenian Academy of Sciences ARMEN AIVAZIAN Senior Researcher, Matenadaran in Yerevan and Professor of Political Science, American University of Armenia RICHARD GIRAGOSIAN Publisher of TransCaucasus: a Chronology JOHN ANTRANIG KASPARIAN Graduate, Geography Programmer, Rutgers University ROBERT KRIKORIAN Advanced Graduate, Harvard University MARKAR MELKONIAN Author RASMIK PANOSSIAN London School of Economics LALIG PAPAZIAN Independent Scholar, Montreal

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'This volume serves as an excellent example of the partisan role academics and intellectuals play in ethnonational conflict. Recommended at all levels.' - D.V. Schwartz, Choice

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