The course literature will be made available to students online through the university library and the course website.
Introduction to Caucasus Studies
- Coene, F. The Caucasus: an introduction. Routledge, 2009
The module includes additional online resources and articles of approximately 150 pages.
A language of the Caucasus
Literature depends on the language chosen.
Russian Language materials include:
- Kemple, Brian. 1992. Essential Russian Grammar. New York: Dover Publications.
- Tchantouria, Revaz and Karina Vamling. 2020. Russian Lectures I (with audiofiles, exercises and wordlist), Malmö-Lund. Ebook in epub3 or other format.
Georgian language materials include:
- Nikolaishvili M & N, Bagration-Davitashvili, 2012. Georgian Language (Intensive course), Georgian National Academy of Science, Tbilisi.
- Tchantouria, Revaz, Vamling, Karina and Manana Kobaidze. 2018. Georgian Lectures (with audiofiles, exercises and wordlists), Lund-Malmö. In html or other format
History of the Caucasus
- Banerji, Arap. 2006. 'Notes on the Histories of History in the Soviet Union' in Economic and Political Weekly 41 (9): 826-833.
- Caucasus Analytical Digest. 2009. Writing National Histories: Coming to Terms with the Past.
- Dudwick, Nora. 1990. 'The case of the Caucasian Albanians: Ethnohistory and ethnic politics' in Cahiers du monde russe et sovie´tique 31 (2-3): 377-383.
- Gammer, Moshe and Vera Kaplan. 2013. 'Post-Soviet Narratives of the Conquest of the Caucasus' in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 61 (1): 26-46.
- Garagozov, Rauf. 2012. 'Azerbaijani history and nationalism in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods: challenges and dilemmas' in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflicts 5 (2): 136-142.
- King, Charles. 2008. The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Kolstø, Pål & Aleksander Rusetskii. 2012. 'Power Differentials and Identity Formation: Images of Self and Other on the Russian-Georgian Boundary' in National Identities 14 (2): 139-155.
- Rouvinski, Vladimir. 2007. '"History Speaks Our Language!" A Comparative Study of Historical Narratives in Soviet and Post-Soviet School Textbooks in the Caucasus' in Internationale Schulbuchforschung 29 (3): 235-257.
- Suny, Ronald. 2009. 'Truth in Telling: Reconciling Realities in the Genocide of the Ottoman Armenians' in The American Historical Review 114 (4): 930-946.
Post-Soviet developments in the Caucasus
- Åslund, Anders. 2008. ‘Transition Economies.’ In: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Library of Economics and Liberty.
- Cornell Caspian Consulting. 2002. The South Caucasus: A Regional Overview and Conflict Assessment, SIDA, Department for Central and Eastern Europe.
- Dudwick, Nora, Elizabeth Gomart, and Alexandre Marc. 2003. When Things Fall Apart: Qualitative Studies of Poverty in the Former Soviet Union. Washington DC: The World Bank. [Selected chapters]
- Fairbanks, Charles H. 2001. “Disillusionments in the Caucasus and Central Asia”. Journal of Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 49-56.
- Gafarli, Orhan et al. 2016. “The Role of Global and Regional Actors in the South Caucasus”. Caucasus Edition - Journal of Conflict Transformation, June 1. 2016.
- Hunter, Shireen T. “The Evolution of the Foreign Policy of the Transcaucasian States” In: Garry K. Bertsch et al. (eds), Crossroad and Conflict. Security and Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Florence: Taylor and Francis, 1999. pp 25-47.
- Kempe, Iris et. al. (eds). ”Social Capital.” Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD), issue 31, November 2011. Pp: 1-18.
- Malek, M. 2006. “The South Caucasus at the Crossroads: Ethno-territorial Conflicts, Russian Interests, and the Access to Energy Resources”. In: G. Hauser & F. Kernic (eds.) European security in transition. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006, p.145-160.
- McFaul, Michael. 2005. “Transitions from Postcommunism”. Journal of Democracy, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 5-19.
- Philip G. Roeder. 1998. “Liberalization and Ethnic Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Successor States” In: Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz. (eds.) The Myth of “Ethnic Conflict”: Politics, Economics, and “Cultural” Violence. University of California at Berkeley. Pp. 78-107.
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Additional online resources and articles will be added when relevant.
