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Armenia : portraits of survival and hope / Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller ; photographs by Jerry Berndt.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl), 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994.
- Armenians--Azerbaijan.
- Armenians.
- Armenia (Republic)--History--1920-1991.
- Armenia (Republic).
- Armenia (Republic)--History--1991-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A remarkable view of how geopolitics affects ordinary people, this book documents, in words and pictures, the lives of Armenians in the last two decades. Based on intimate interviews with three hundred Armenians and featuring Jerry Berndt's superb photographs, it brings together firsthand testimony about the social, economic, and spiritual circumstances of Armenians during the 1980's and 1990's, when the country faced an earthquake, pogroms, and war.
- Contents:
- Massive destruction : the 1988 earthquake
- Random violence : pogroms in Azerbaijan
- Fighting for survival : the war of independence in Nagorno-Karabakh
- Surviving the winter : paying the price for independence
- We live with hope : reflections on conditions in Armenia
- Concluding reflections : the meaning of being human
- Epilogue : ten years after independence.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-92914-4
- 1-59734-473-7
- OCLC:
- 475928744
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