Black garden
Subtitle: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war
By: Thomas De Waal.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994; Armenia (Republic) -- Relations -- Azerbaijan; Azerbaijan -- Relations -- Armenia (Republic)
Description: "In the beautiful hills of the Caucasus, Armenia and Azerbaijan are still locked in a quarrel that has blighted the entire region between Russia and Iran, the Black and the Caspian Seas. The dispute over Nagorny Karabakh made the first tears in the fabric of Gorbachev's Soviet Union in 1988 and so can lay claim to ending the Soviet empire.

In 1991-94 it became the first interstate war in the former USSR, leading to twenty thousand deaths and one of the biggest refugee flows of modern times, with more than a million people still displaced from their homes.".

"In Black Garden, Thomas de Waal tells the full story of this tragic quarrel and its aftermath for the first time. He travels the length and breadth of Armenia and Azerbaijan, talking to veterans, refugees and the inhabitants of ruined towns and villages. He recreates the story of the descent into conflict of two former Soviet neighbors, its disastrous consequences and the confused efforts of the "Great Powers" - Russia, France and the United states - to bring peace to the Caucasus."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Crossing the line; title: February 1988 : an Armenian revolt; title: February 1988 : Azerbaijan : puzzlement and pogroms; title: Shusha : the neighbors' tale; title: 1988-89 : an Armenian crisis; title: Yerevan : mysteries of the East; title: 1988-90 : an Azerbaijani tragedy; title: Baku : an eventful history; title: 1990 : a Soviet civil war; title: Divisions : a twentieth century story; title: Hurekavank : the unpredictable past; title: August 1991-May 1992 : war breaks out; title: Shusha : the last citadel; title: June 1992-September 1993 : escalation; title: Sabirabad : the children's republic; title: September 1993 : exhaustion; title: Stepanakert : a state apart; title: 1994-2001 : no war, no peace; title: Sadakhlo : the future.