ISBN:
9781349142279
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 238 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Political theory
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Russia Politics and government
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Political science
;
Military history
;
Europe
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-14227-9
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