Author

Thomas de Waal

Translation

Didem Sone

Language

Turkish

1st edition - November 2014
472 Pages
30 TL

Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, spell the end the Soviet Union, and plunge a region of great strategic importance into a decade of turmoil. This important volume is both a careful reconstruction of the history of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict since 1988 and on-the-spot reporting of the convoluted aftermath. Part contemporary history, part travel book, part political analysis, the book is based on six months traveling through the south Caucasus, more than 120 original interviews in the region, Moscow, and Washington, and unique historical primary sources, such as Politburo archives. The historical chapters trace how the conflict lay unresolved in the Soviet era; how Armenian and Azerbaijani societies unfroze it; how the Politiburo failed to cope with the crisis; how the war was fought and ended; how the international community failed to sort out the conflict. What emerges is a complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice and conflict.

Thomas de Waal is currently Senior Associate, Caucasus at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has reported on Russia and the Caucasus since 1993 for the Moscow Times, The Times of London, The Economist, and the BBC World Service. He is the coauthor, with Carlotta Gall, of Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus (NYU Press, 1998) and the author of The Caucasus: An Introduction (OUP, 2010) .

Name
Karabağ
Original Name
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (2004)
Subtitle
Barış ve Savaş Süreçlerinde Ermenistan ve Azerbaycan
ISBN
9786056448829
Price
30 TL
Pages
472
Width
150 mm
Height
210 mm
Weight
528 gr
Printing
1st edition - November 2014
Language
Turkish
Author
Thomas de Waal
Translation
Didem Sone
Editing
Bülent Usta
Cover photo
Halid Askerov, Ağdam, Azerbaijan, 1992
Cover design
Sera Dink
Page layout
Sera Dink, Murat Gözoğlu
Printed in
Mas Matbaacılık

© Hrant Dink Vakfı Yayınları
For Turkish.

© New York University Press, 2013
For all languages except Turkish.

This book was translated and printed with the support of Danish Ministry of Foreing Affairs' MyMedia Program.

  • Author’s Note
  • Preface for the Turkish Edition
    Thomas de Waal
  • Maps: South Caucasus and Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Introduction: Crossing the Line
  • February 1988: An Armenian Revolt
  • February 1988: Azerbaijan: Puzzlement and Pogroms
  • Shusha: The Neighbors’ Tale
  • 1988–1989: An Armenian Crisis
  • Yerevan: Mysteries of the East
  • 1988–1990: An Azerbaijani Tragedy
  • Baku: An Eventful History
  • 1990–1991: A Soviet Civil War
  • Divisions: A Twentieth-Century Story
  • Hurekavank: The Unpredictable Past
  • August 1991–May 1992: War Breaks Out
  • Shusha: The Last Citadel
  • June 1992–September 1993: Escalation
  • Sabirabad: The Children’s Republic
  • September 1993–May 1994: Exhaustion
  • Stepanakert: A State Apart
  • 1994–2001: No War, No Peace
  • Sadakhlo: “They Fight, We Don’t”
  • 2001–2012: Deadlock and Estrangement
  • Conclusion: Seeking Peace in Karabakh
  • Appendix 1: Statistics
  • Appendix 2: Chronology
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index