From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the Making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh

by Ars Saparov and Arsène Saparov

Book Overview

This book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the Caucasus in the 1920s - the transitional period from Russian Empire to Soviet Union. Seventy years later these ethnic autonomies were to become the loci of violent ethno-political conflicts which have consistently been blamed on the policies of the Bolsheviks and Stalin. According to this view, the Soviet leadership deliberately set up ethnic autonomies within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415658020
• ISBN13: 9780415658027
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"