Azerbaijan diary : a rogue reporter's adventures in an oil-rich, war-torn, post-Soviet republic
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
History
xxx, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780765602435, 9780765602442, 0765602431, 076560244X
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Getting there fair and square
A distant coup
Friday evening on freedom square
Karabakh: the black garden
Home sweet baku
A reborn republic
Xodjali
Slithering in the swamp
Of militias and mamed the mule
A diversion through Islamic republic of Iran
Riding the roller coaster
Coup redux
From ballots to bullets
An army stumbles forward
Alla Turca
Of war- and oil
Corruption in the ranks
Rumblings of dissent
The snow job
Kelbajar
The lull before the storm
The crowbar- or Heydar comes home
Meanwhile, back at the front..
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan..
Scars on the soul
Revised edition of: Requiem for a would-be republic. 1994
Includes index