Pride of Small Nations: The Caucasus and Post-Soviet Disorder

摘要: The Caucasus is the mountainous region between Europe and Asia, Islam Christianity, Turk Slav. break-up of Soviet Union has given way to ethnic hatred, internecine warfare political instability region. This book provides an introduction each new republics - Georgia, Armenia Azerbaijan as well enclave Nagorno-Karabakh micro-states North Caucasus, which lie uneasily within Russian Republic. Against background current geopolitical rivalries historical enmities, author explores issues including fragility democratic institutions; competition old communist apparatchiks nationalist demagogues; Ossetian, Abkhazian Chechen secessions; ecological damage economic disintegration; importance Islamic consciousness.