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Black garden : Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war

The definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan got sucked into a conflict that helped bring them to independence and an end to the Soviet Union
Print Book, English, [2005]
New York University Press, New York, [2005]
xvii, 337 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780814719459, 9780814719442, 0814719457, 0814719449
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Crossing the line
February 1988 : an Armenian revolt
February 1988 : Azerbaijan : puzzlement and pogroms
Shusha : the neighbors' tale
1988-89 : an Armenian crisis
Yerevan : mysteries of the East
1988-90 : an Azerbaijani tragedy
Baku : an eventful history
1990 : a Soviet civil war
Divisions : a twentieth century story
Hurekavank : the unpredictable past
August 1991-May 1992 : war breaks out
Shusha : the last citadel
June 1992-September 1993 : escalation
Sabirabad : the children's republic
September 1993 : exhaustion
Stepanakert : a state apart
1994-2001 : no war, no peace
Sadakhlo : the future
Originally published: 2003
Date from preface--P. xv