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Centuries of Imperial Rule in the Caucasus: Collapse of USSR and Conflicts in the 1990s

Hrvoje Pleić

Sažetak

The collapse of the Soviet Union has caused an unprecedented geopolitical catastrophe in modern history, leaving unstable inter-ethnic spaces to the fate of their own nationalisms. Soviet ethno-cartographers formed the dynamic space of a new Eurasian empire with compromise solutions, ignoring and delaying the essence of inter-ethnic problems in the South Caucasus. Soviet policies created the conditions for the control of the South Caucasus by using the interrelations of its peoples to maintain the power of the central government, and by stoking inter-ethnic conflicts. Although Soviet policies sought to address the problem, their goal was to control the South Caucasus by means of state power, the disappearance of which marked the beginning of deferred conflicts that continue to this day.

Ključne riječi

South Caucasus; Stalin; Soviet Union; Armenia; Georgia; Azerbaijan; ethnic conflicts

Hrčak ID:

277584

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/277584

Datum izdavanja:

31.12.2021.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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