Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet RepublicThis 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. |
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User Review - lsg - LibraryThingGood first person history of the early days of Azerbaijan independence and the war with Armenia, if you can get past the author. He's really fond of himself, but that is a small flaw in a useful history. Read full review
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User Review - JBreedlove - LibraryThingAn excellent personal account of the chaotic times in Azerbaijan after the fall of the Soviet Union. Kaplan is good (before he fell in love with the military) but this was a much more involved account of travel in tumultuous foreign lands. Read full review
Contents
Getting There Fair and Square | 3 |
A Distant Coup | 37 |
Friday Evening on Freedom Square | 44 |
The Black Garden | 74 |
Home Sweet Baku | 89 |
A Reborn Republic | 106 |
Xodjali | 117 |
Slithering in the Swamp | 131 |
Alla Turca | 250 |
Of War and Oil | 262 |
Corruption in the Ranks | 280 |
Rumblings of Dissent | 290 |
The Snow Job | 299 |
Kelbajar | 322 |
The Lull Before the Storm | 348 |
The CrowbarOr Heydar Comes Home | 366 |
Of Militias and Mamed the Mule | 149 |
A Diversion Through the Islamic Republic of Iran | 155 |
Riding the Roller Coaster | 177 |
Coup Redux | 199 |
From Ballots to Bullets | 215 |
An Army Stumbles Forward | 231 |
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| Title | Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic |
| Author | Thomas Goltz |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | M.E. Sharpe, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0765602431, 9780765602435 |
| Length | 496 pages |
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