{"product_id":"9780814760321","title":"Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Brilliant.”— \u003cb\u003eTime \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter.”— \u003cb\u003eThe New York Review of Books \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been better described—or indeed, better explained…Offers a deeper and more compelling account of the conflict than anyone before.”— \u003cb\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 2003, the first edition of \u003cb\u003eBlack Garden\u003c\/b\u003e has become the definitive study of how Armenia and\u003cbr\u003eAzerbaijan, 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\u003cbr\u003e• riginal 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\u003cbr\u003eAzerbaijani 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe revisedand updated 10th-year anniversary edition includes a new forward, a new chapter covering developments up to-2011, such as the election of new presidents in both countries, Azerbaijan’s oil boom and the new arms race in the region, and a new conclusion, analysing the reasons for the intractability of the conflict and whether there are any prospects for its resolution. Telling the story of the first conflict to shake Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union, \u003cb\u003eBlack Garden\u003c\/b\u003e remains a central account of the reality of the post-Soviet world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015319175408,"sku":"9780814760321","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814760321","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}