دانلود کتاب The Value of the Past: Myths, Identity and Politics in Transcaucasia

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Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Maps
Introduction: Myths, Symbols and Politics
Part I. The Armenian-Azeri Confrontation
1. Myths and identity
2. From Tigran the Great to Soviet Armenia
3. Myth and politics in Armenia: from migrants to indigenous people
4. The value of indigenous ancestors
5. The origins of the Armenian people, and the Armenian school
6. The Armenization of Urartu: revisionist concepts
7. The birth of the Azeri nation
8. The search for historical concepts, and major politics
9. The Median temptation and Soviet patriotism
10. Between Media, Caucasian Albania and the Turkic world: thirst for a new view
11. Revisionists: the pan-Turkic assault
12. The struggle between the “conservatives” and the “revisionists”, and a school education
13. The struggle for Nagorny Karabagh: the clash of myths
14. The Nakhjivan passions
15. History and intense politics
Part II. The Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict
1. A republic with restricted sovereignt
2. The Abknazian republic in search of its glorious ancestor
3. The adventures of the early Georgians in Asia Minor
4. Eternal Georgia
5. The Colchian mirage
6. Turchaninov’s “discovery\"
7. The Abkhazians in a struggle for the “right” past
8. The Abkhazian-Georgian competition
9. From competition to confrontatio
10. History, religion, demography, politics
Part III. Thrown Over the Ridge
1. Southern Ossetia in the Georgian context
2. Scythiomania
Conclusion: Ethnocentrism and the Breakup of the Soviet Union
Notes
Literature
Index of Authors and Personal Names
Index of Political, Geographical, Tribal and Ethnic Names