Wars in the Caucasus, 19901995 [Paperback]

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.List of Maps - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Chronology A - Chronology B - Chronology C - Chronology D - Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Armenia and Azerbaijan - Multi-Party Politics: 1990-2 - Competing Warlords: 1993-5 - Georgia - Shevardnadze - Turbulent Georgia: 1993-4 - President Shevardnadze: 1995 - The Chechen Syndrome - Operation Wave - The Struggle for Chechenya - Retrospect and Prospect - Bibliography - Index