| Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic Contributor(s): Goltz, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765602431 ISBN-13: 9780765602435 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: This underground classic tells the story of oil-rich Azerbaijan's first years of independence from Moscow. Thomas Goltz became an accidental witness to Azerbaijan's inglorious history-in-the-making when he was detoured into Baku in mid-1991 - and decided to stay. This record of his years there alternates in style between tragedy and farce. Throughout, the intensity of immediate experience is balanced by an acute awareness of contemporaneous events in Karabakh and Naxjivan, Georgia and Armenia, Russia and Chechnya, Iran and Turkey, Washington and Houston. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 947.54 |
| LCCN: 97-27981 |
| Physical Information: 1.62" H x 6.34" W x 9.23" (1.96 lbs) 560 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1990's - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In its first years as an independent state, Azerbaijan was a prime example of post-Soviet chaos - beset by coups and civil strife and astride an ethnic, political and religious divide. Author Goltz was detoured in Baku in mid-1991 and decided to stay, this diary is the record of his experiences. |