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The Soviet Union created the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region within Azerbaijan in 1924, when over 94 percent of the region's population was Armenian (see fig. 3). (The term Nagorno-Karabakh originates from the Russian for "mountainous Karabakh.") As the Azerbaijani population grew, the Karabakh Armenians chafed under discriminatory rule, and by 1960 hostilities had begun between the two populations of the region. ... Read more

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Discusses the topography, location, ethnic mixture, history, economic activities, and future of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. ... Read more

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World-shaking revolutions in Russia in 1905 and 1917, in Ottoman Turkey in 1908, World War I, the defeat of the Central Powers and triumph of the Entente, the Turkish War of Independence and the establishment of the new Turkish nation state under Atatürk, and the establishment of Azerbaijan: These events form the backdrop to Ahmet Agaoglu’s life, which spanned the momentous period from 1869-1939. This intellectual biography of this major player is a striking entry point through which these turbulent times are brought sharply into relief.
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An important scholarly contribution
Ahmet Agaoglu, a native of Azerbaijan, who would play an important role in the development of modern Turkish nationalism, is the subject of this tightly focused intellectual biography.For students of the Caucasus at the end of the Russian Empire or of the development of Turkish nationalism, Holly Shissler's carefully researched work holds a wealth of important information and insights.

Yet Shissler's contribution goes far beyond this in two ways.First, her introductory chapter offers one of the best historiographical overviews of trends within the study of Turkish nationalism that I have seen.Second her work acts as a corrective to the tendency in the study of nationalism to concentrate on the formulation of identity which actually wins out in the end.Through her careful tracing of Agaoglu's intellectual development, she shows how fluid national identities were in this period, and how subject to changing political realities.

For students of the late Ottoman Empire, Turkish nationalism, and the late Caucasus, this is an important contribution.Given the care with which it has been written, it is likely to remain an important work within the field for decades to come. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Azerbaijan People's Government was a short-lived, Soviet-backed client state (November 1945 - November 1946) in northern Iran. Established in Iranian Azerbaijan, the APG's capital was the city of Tabriz. Its establishment and demise were a part of the Iran crisis, which was a precursor to the Cold War. ... Read more