"Brilliant."-Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and
patient reporter."-The New York Review of Books "Never have all the
twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been
better described-or indeed, better explained...Offers a deeper and
more compelling account of the conflict than anyone
before."-Foreign Affairs Since its publication in 2003, the first
edition of Black Garden has become the definitive study of how
Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled
into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, spell the
end the Soviet Union, and plunge a region of great strategic
importance into a decade of turmoil. This important volume is both
a careful reconstruction of the history of the Nagorny Karabakh
conflict since 1988 and on-the-spot reporting of the convoluted
aftermath. Part contemporary history, part travel book, part
political analysis, the book is based on six months traveling
through the south Caucasus, more than 120 original interviews in
the region, Moscow, and Washington, and unique historical primary
sources, such as Politburo archives. The historical chapters trace
how the conflict lay unresolved in the Soviet era; how Armenian and
Azerbaijani societies unfroze it; how the Politiburo failed to cope
with the crisis; how the war was fought and ended; how the
international community failed to sort out the conflict. What
emerges is a complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and
fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice and conflict.
The revised and updated 10th-year anniversary edition includes a
new forward, a new chapter covering developments up to-2011, such
as the election of new presidents in both countries, Azerbaijan's
oil boom and the new arms race in the region, and a new conclusion,
analysing the reasons for the intractability of the conflict and
whether there are any prospects for its resolution. Telling the
story of the first conflict to shake Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet
Union, Black Garden remains a central account of the reality of the
post-Soviet world.
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