Overview
As Soviet Communism dissolved it was replaced in the Caucasus by nationalism enabling the Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia to obtain independence: Chechenya is still fighting on. War between Armenia and Azerbaijan started immediately over the Azeri administered Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhicheven enclaves within Armenia, which has already cost over 30,000 lives, and displaced a million people. Warlord-ridden Georgia erupted into civil war for central power, while the countryside lay in the grip of ethnic groups and bandit gangs, its Muslim Abkhazia province, aided by Russians, fought a three-year separatist war that remains a stalemate.
- | Author: Edgar O'Ballance
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 238 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1349142298
- | ISBN-13: 9781349142293
