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Georgia : pawn in the new great game

Title
Georgia : pawn in the new great game / Per Gahrton.
Author
Gahrton, Per, 1943-
Publication
London : Pluto Press, c2010.

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Description
xiv, 254 p. : ill., 1 map; 22 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Geopolitical setting - a renewed Great Game -- Puppet or buffer? -- A history of failed independence -- The dissolution of the Soviet Union - blessing or disaster? -- The breakaway regions - Russian stooges or freedom seekers? -- Gamsakhurdia, the tactical fanatic -- Shevardnadze, the failed saviour -- Kmara - enough! The Rose Revolution -- The revolutionary honeymoon -- The death of Zhvania - the revolution loses its brain -- Saakashvili, the failed liberator -- The Ossetia War 2008 a conspiracy, but by whom? -- After the war: renewed political clashes -- Georgia and Russia, the prodigal son and the big brother -- Georgia's future: Caucasian, European and nonaligned.
Call Number
JFD 10-3831
ISBN
  • 9780745328607 (hbk.)
  • 0745328601 (hbk.)
  • 0745328598 (pbk.)
  • 9780745328591 (pbk.)
OCLC
501396976
Author
Gahrton, Per, 1943-
Title
Georgia : pawn in the new great game / Per Gahrton.
Imprint
London : Pluto Press, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 10-3831
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