The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh

Download or read book The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh written by Levon Chorbajian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-08-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major territorial struggle in the late Soviet period involved Nagorno-Karabagh, an Armenian inhabited territory that had been assigned to the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. In the early 1920s. Armenian protests calling for reunification with Armenia in 1988 led to Azerbaijani pogroms against Armenians and later to armed conflict that claimed over twenty thousand lives. The struggle remains unresolved. A distinguished group of historians and social scientists analyze the Karabagh struggle in this unique volume that covers one of the world's strategic, oil-rich regions.