Resettling the borderlands : state relocations and ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus / Farid Shafiyev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shafiyev, Farid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced migration--Caucasus, South--History--19th century.

Forced migration.

Forced migration--Caucasus, South--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"The book explores resettlement policies conducted by Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the South Caucasus in 1817-1953. The author investigates the state-managed population transfers concerning Germans, Russians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Farid Shafiyev offers insights on imperial tools to manage space and people in Muslim borderlands. The research seeks to find not only parallels and continuity between the resettlement policies of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, but also aims at analyzing the modalities and complexities of empire-building in the borderlands under investigation. Among key findings is the nexus between foreign policy and religious factors in population transfers. The focus of the study is also the impact of demographical changes on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The author presents newly available archival material from Azerbaijani deposits concerning the Soviet period."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Russian conquest of the South Caucasus

First imperial projects : foreign settlers

Germans and Armenians

Resettlement of Russians

Locals and settlers : conflicts under Russian rule

Soviet population management and deportations

Soviet postwar resettlement projects in the South Caucasus

Conclusion

Appendix. Major timelines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 22, 2018).

ISBN:

9780773553736

0773553738

9780773553729

077355372X

OCLC:

1027218713