Black Garden Aflame: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in the Soviet and Russian Press

For a few brief weeks in Fall 2020, Western media buzzed with news of an intense war between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave nestled in the mountains 30 miles from the Armenian border. And yet few of these stories addressed the historical, political and ethnic underpinnings of this long-standing conflict.

By contrast, Soviet and Russian journalists have covered multiple "hot" and "cold" phases of the Karabakh conflict for decades, publishing unique eyewitness accounts and incisive, well-researched analysis. Their writings attest to knowledge of the region that is as vast as it is intimate. For the first time in book form, East View Press presents a carefully selected, translated, and edited collection of articles that have appeared in the Russian-language media since the Karabakh conflict began.

Our goal is to provide both the broadest and the deepest context of Moscow's understanding of the conflict as it has been dissected, litigated, and relitigated on the pages of the Soviet and Russian press. BLACK GARDEN AFLAME will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike.