Read Eight Pieces of Empire Online
Authors: Lawrence Scott Sheets
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Russia & the Former Soviet Union, #Former Soviet Republics, #Essays
Martin, Terry.
The Affirmative Action Empire
. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
McCarthy, Justin.
Death and Exile—The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821–1922
. London: Darwin Press, 1995.
Melkonian, Markar.
The Right to Struggle
. San Francisco: Sardarabad Press, 2006.
Melkonian, Monte:
My Brother’s Road
. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
Montefiore, Simon Sebag.
Stalin: In the Court of the Red Czar
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
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The Young Stalin
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Motyl, Alexander:
Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empire
. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Pope, Hugh.
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World
. New York: Overlook, 2005.
Radzinsky, Edvard.
The Last Tsar
. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Reid, Anna.
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2000.
Reiss, Tom.
The Orientalist
. New York: Random House, 2005.
Riddell, John, ed.
To See the Dawn, Baku, 1920: First Congress of the Peoples of the East
. Pathfinder, 1993.
Saikal, Amin.
Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival
. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006.
Shevardnadze, Eduard.
Moj Vybor v zashchitu demokratii i svobody
. Moscow: Novosti, 1991.
Smith, Sebastian:
Allah’s Mountains: Politics and War in the Russian Caucasus
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Suny, Ronald.
The Baku Commune, 1917–1918
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.
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Looking at Ararat: Armenia in Modern History
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
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The Making of the Georgian Nation
. London: I. B. Tauris, 1989.
Talbot, Strobe. “Self-Determination.”
Foreign Policy
, Spring 2000.
Thomas, D. M.
Ararat
. New York: Viking Press, 1983.
Tishkov, Valery.
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Conflict in and After the Soviet Union: The Mind Aflame
. London: Sage Publications, 1997.
Volkov, Vadim. “The Political Economy of Protection Rackets.”
Social Research
, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Fall 2000).
Walker, Christopher.
Armenia: The Survival of a Nation
. London: Routledge, 1980.
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Visions of Ararat Writings on Armenia
. London: I. B. Tauris, 1997.
Wilhelmsen, Julie.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Islam in Chechnya)
, Norwegian Institute of International Studies, 2005.
Yandarbiev, Zelimkha.
Checheniya – Bitva za svobodu
. Lvov: n.p., 1996.
Yergin, Daniel.
The Prize
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LAWRENCE SCOTT SHEETS
reported for National Public Radio for seven years and was NPR’s Moscow bureau chief from 2001 to 2005, covering the entire former USSR. He was Caucasus region bureau chief for Reuters from 1992 to 2000 and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University from 2000 to 2001. His work has been published in the
Atlantic Monthly
and the
New York Times
and has been heard on the BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and other news outlets. Sheets is currently South Caucasus project director of the International Crisis Group, focusing on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.