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From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus - The Soviet Union and the Making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh (Paperback)
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From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus - The Soviet Union and the Making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh (Paperback)
Series: Central Asian Studies
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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
the republics, thereby giving Moscow unprecedented leverage against
each republic. From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus questions
this assumption by examining three case studies: Abkhazia, South
Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh are placed within the larger
socio-political context of transformations taking place in this
borderland region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It
examines demographic, social and economic consequences of the
Russian colonization and resulting replacement of traditional
societies and identities with modern ones. Based on original
Russian language sources and archival materials, the book brings
together two periods that are usually studied separately - the
period of the Russian Civil War 1917-20 and the early Soviet period
- in order to understand the roots of the Bolshevik decision-making
policy when granting autonomies. It argues that rather than being
the product of blatant political manipulation this was an attempt
at conflict resolution. The institution of political autonomy,
however, became a powerful tool for national mobilization during
the Soviet era. Contributing both to the general understanding of
the early Soviet nationality policy and to our understanding of the
conflicts that have engulfed the Caucasus region since the 1990s,
this book will be of interest to scholars of Central Asian studies,
Russian/Soviet history, ethnic conflict, security studies and
International Relations.
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