Table of Contents
Introduction: Who wanted the TDFR? The making and the breaking of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
Adrian Brisku and Timothy K. Blauvelt
1. Between empire and independence: Armenia and the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
Mikayel Zolyan
2. Azerbaijan and the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic: historical reality and possibility
Georges Mamoulia
3. The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) as a "Georgian" responsibility
Adrian Brisku
4. Pragmatism and expediency: Ottoman calculations and the establishment of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
Stefano Taglia
5. The German perspective on the Transcaucasian Federation and the influence of the Committee for Georgia’s Independence
Lasha Bakradze
6. Feeble projects and aspirations: the Caucasian and Transcaucasian federation/confederation in the geopolitics of 1918–1920
Beka Kobakhidze
7. Ideology meets practice in the struggle for the Transcaucasus: Stepan Shaumyan and the evolution of Bolshevik nationality policy
Timothy K. Blauvelt
8. Ukraine and the Transcaucasus in 1917–1918: parallels, interactions, influences
Timothy K. Blauvelt and Stanislav Tumis
9. Turning towards unity: a North Caucasian perspective on the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
Sarah Slye
Afterword
Adrian Brisku