Invented Tradition and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus

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Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Legacy of Soviet Nation-building

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The legacy of Caucasian Albania, an otherwise obscure and enigmatic Christian kingdom that disappeared in the ninth century CE but remerged in the Soviet-era South Caucasus, has played a perhaps surprisingly significant role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.Comprising eight chapters and an introduction and conclusion, this book gathers some of the world’s leading authorities on Soviet nationalities policy and South Caucasian history to examine the role of historians and Soviet-era nation-building policies in fanning the flames of ethnic/territorial conflicts across the troubled landscape of the South Caucasus. Its initial section contains conceptual and historiographic contributions on Soviet nationality policy and how it shaped and birthed nations in part through the creation of national history textbooks. It then examines the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh and the uses of the Caucasian Albanian past in fanning the flames of hatred and cultural vandalism in the region. It will be essential reading for scholars specialising on post-Soviet history, nationalism and the South Caucasus.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-29
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieArmenians in the Modern and Early Modern World
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780755658718

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Sebouh David Aslanian is Professor of History and Richard Hovannisian Chair of Modern Armenian History, UCLA. Aslanian is the author of three research monographs, including Dispersion History and the Polycentric Nation: The Role of Simeon Yerevants‘i’s Girk‘ vor kochi Partavchar in the Eighteenth-Century National Revival (2004), the award-winning From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa 2011). His book Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities, Printers, and the Birth of Confessional Nation across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800 (2024) was the winner of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) best book on any aspect of print culture published in 2024.

Preface by Cornel WestIntroduction: The ‘Mountain of Tongues’ (jabal al-alsun), Difference, and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus.Part I: On Primordialism, Soviet Nationality Policy and TextbooksChapter One: Primordial Poppy Growers and the War on Drugs: Historians and the Soviet Empire’s Production of NationsRon G. SunyChapter Two: ‘Primordialism, a useful analytical category?’ Terry MartinChapter Three: Nationalism and a View of the Past: A case of the Azerbaijani Textbooks.Victor ShnirelmanPart II: The Uses of the Past in Focus: Nagorno Karabakh and Caucasian Albania in Focus Chapter Four: Russia’s Annexation of the South Caucasus and its ImplicationsStephen RieggChapter Five: From an Antique Land: A Usable Past, The Caucasian Albanians and Ethnic Cleaning in the South CaucasusSebouh David Aslanian and Artyom TonoyanChapter Six: The Semiotic Roots of the Albanian Issue: Movses Dashkhurants‘i/Kaghankatuats‘i’s History of Albania and Artsakh/KarabaghLevon AbrahamianChapter Seven: Place Name Wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial Maps and Political Legitimacy in the South CaucasusArsene SaparovChapter Eight: Strzygowski’s Ghost: Race and Architectural History in Armenia and Caucasian AlbaniaChristina MaranciConclusion: Gerard Libaridian