The Transcaucasus in Transition

Abstract

The three Soviet Transcaucasian republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia experienced growing political and ethnic unrest, as well as increased aspirations for self-determination, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As the communist system has fallen deeper into crisis throughout the Soviet Union, popular movements have gained strength and varying degrees of power in all three republics, despite bureaucratic communist holdovers in the republic administrations. Popular movements in all three have declared their intention to withdraw from the Soviet Union. This Note analyzes the political problems and aspirations of the major Transcaucasian ethnic groups. The analysis is based on the author's participation in a conference on Soviet Caucasia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in July 1990, on Radio Liberty's weekly Report on the USSR, and on the Central Asia and Caucasus Chronicle, published by the Society for Central Asian Studies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA252539

Entities

People

  • Paul B. Henze

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central Asia
  • Communism
  • Demography
  • Economic Systems
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Governments
  • Human Population
  • Minority Groups
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Systems
  • Societies
  • Sociology
  • United States
  • Ussr

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union