Russia and Azerbaijan

Swietochowski's study of twentieth-century Azerbaijan is a unique and groundbreaking work. This is nothing less than the recovery for Western readers of a lost history of a little-known people. By looking on both sides of the Iranian-Russian frontier, he tells the complex and diverse stories that have complicated the processes of nation-building and national identity for the Azeri Turks. -- Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Chicago

A cultural history of a people split in two by the forces of imperialism, this study examines the long-standing Russian-Iranian division of the land west of the Caspian Sea. The author explores the diplomatic history of Azerbaijan and the strength of ethnic identity which remains.-- History Today