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The mysteries of the Caucasus / Dorota Gierycz.
LIBRA DK678.17 .G54 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gierycz, Dorota.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence.
- Ethnic relations.
- Politics and government.
- Georgia (Republic)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Georgia (Republic).
- Caucasus--Politics and government.
- Caucasus.
- Caucasus--History.
- History.
- Caucasus--Ethnic relations.
- Political violence--Caucasus.
- Caucasus Region.
- Genre:
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [U.S.] : Xlibris Corp, [2010]
- Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Welcome to the Aitar Hotel
- Abkhazia : the illusion of freedom
- Country roads
- The Aitar women
- Displaced and abandoned
- Dachas of the Communist bosses
- Of peacocks and swans
- Sochi
- Gori and Stalin's birthplace
- Kodori Gorge
- Smiling faces
- Maria
- Sergio : death in Baghdad
- The Caucasian roulette
- Tbilisi, mon amour
- Kitty
- Shevardnadze : hero of perestroika or "Silver Fox" of the Caucasus?
- Rose Revolution or masquerade?
- Shevardnadze : an afterword
- Russia, Georgia, and their leaders
- UNOMIG : mission impossible
- Abashidze and the Council of Europe : an odd alliance
- Democracy of the Fist : the Georgian crisis of 2007
- The summer of Olympics, 2008
- The Rose Revolution : six years on
- Feeling abandoned : the international community
- In the Opposition Club
- Epilogue
- Selected bibliography
- Abbreviations
- About the author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259).
- ISBN:
- 9781453556870
- 1453556877
- 9781453556887
- 1453556885
- OCLC:
- 694151544
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