1st Edition
Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
By Thomas Goltz
Copyright 2006
344 Pages
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Routledge
360 Pages
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Routledge
344 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 2015. The author of the acclaimed Azerbaijan Diary and Chechnya Diary now recounts his experiences in the strife-ridden Republic of Georgia. Soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Georgia fell prey to a series of power struggles, rampant crime and corruption, secessionist wars, and the spillover of the war in neighboring Chechenya. Journalist Goltz traces... Read more
List of Maps; * Preface; * Acknowledgments; Prologue: A (New) Caucasian Chalk Circle (or: There Dwell Dragons); Part One; 1. The Quest for Gamsakhurdia; 2. Blinking Briefly at a Complex History; 3. The Rise, Rule, Retirement, and Return of the Silver Fox; 4. The Fall of Zugdidi; Part Two; 5. An Iberian Interregnum; 6. (Muslim) Georgia on My Mind; 7. Storm Clouds over Sukhumi; 8. The Wretched Riviera and the Death of a Friend; Part Three; 9. Sarajevo by the Sea; 10. Black Sea Refugee; 11. Aftermath in the Mountains; Part Four; 12. Chaos in the Caucasus; 13. Bridge Across the Inguri; A Never-Ending Epilogue (or: Trying to Close a Chalk Circle); Index.
Biography
Thomas Goltz
