Arsène Saparov

Gebundenes Buch

From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus

The Soviet Union and the Making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh

Beschreibung

From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus analyses the relation of the Soviet nationality policy and modern ethnic conflicts in the post-Soviet space. The book explains why the Bolsheviks granted autonomous status to ethnic minorities in the South Caucasus, focusing in particular on Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia. It questions the assumption that the Soviet leadership deliberately set up ethnic autonomies within the republics, thereby giving Moscow unprecedented leverage against each republic.By looking at the reasons why autonomy was awarded to these ethnic groups, the book highlights the roots of the modern conflicts in the Caucasus.

Autor

Arsène Saparov received a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, UK, in 2007. He now teaches Russian/Soviet and Caucasian history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. His research focuses on ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus, and Russian and Soviet history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780415658027
• ISBN-10: 0415658020
• Artikelnr.: 39294413

Rezensionen

Saparov's concentrated study expands understating of Soviet nationality policy, and demonstrates how the peoples of the South Caucasus navigated it. - M. Chakars, Saint Joseph's University

Overall, in terms of aims and analyses, Saparov's book has the potential to be an outstanding work, dealing with the very complex subject that is boundary making in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Karabakh. This book is a useful source to all researchers and students who are interested in ethnic conflict, nation building and conflict resolution in the former Soviet Union. - OHANNES GEUKJIAN, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon