Wars in the Caucasus, 1990-1995

By Edgar O'Ballance

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349142298
• ISBN13: 9781349142293
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"