Chapters - Revival of Karabakh

The Irreducible Truth

Prologue

A century ago, amid the granting of territory to forge the first Armenian homeland in history, followed by the emergence of a new, rabid strain of nationalism and chimeric

Divide et Impera

Chapter One

The Patriotic War of 2020 represented a remarkable strategic victory for Baku, finally restoring the territorial integrity of a nation that had been so fecklessly

Imperial shadows

Chapter Two

By the 19th century, the Russian Empire had established itself as a European power, but it also looked eastward, striving to assert control over the region between

The Soviet chessboard

Chapter Three

Ironically, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was in lockstep with British uber-colonialist Sir Percy Cox over Karabakh, both concluding that it was Azerbaijani territory

War’s hidden dividends

Chapter Four

The unravelling of a broken and bankrupt Soviet Union was seized upon by feckless politicians to reignite their campaign over Karabakh. Simultaneously, Heydar Aliyev, the only Azerbaijani

The collapse of peace

Chapter Five

With Yerevan falling under a kleptocracy and Baku’s inept political class gripped by fear and self-loathing, Karabakh was subjected to a sustained campaign of violence and ethnic cleansing

Karabakh burning

Chapter Six

Ignoring a British Foreign Secretary’s warnings of the Mafia crime networks that were funding Yerevan’s war chest, coupled with the international community’s unwillingness

The architect of a nation

Chapter Seven

The enemy was at the gates. By the summer of 1993, a significant part of Azerbaijan’s territories had been bludgeoned into submission

A silent world

Chapter Eight

President George H. W. Bush had declared “a new world order”. Yet, at the very moment of its rebirth as an independent state, as Azerbaijan found itself subject to invasion, mass displacement

Beyond breaking point

Chapter Nine

War is not the answer, goes the phrase. But that aphorism begs a question: what was the question? In the final analysis, after brokering a fragile ceasefire with enduring resilience