ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF MAPS

MYTHS, SYMBOLS AND POLITICS

PART I THE ARMENIAN-AZERI CONFRONTATION

Chapter 1 Myths and identity

Chapter 2 From Tigran the Great to Soviet Armenia

Chapter 3 Myths and politics in Armenia: from migrants to indigenous people

Chapter 4 The value of indigenous ancestors

Chapter 5 The origins of the Armenian people, and the Armenian school

Chapter 6 The Armenization of Urartu: revisionist concepts

Chapter 7 The birth of the Azeri nation

Chapter 8 The search for historical concepts, and major politics

Chapter 9 The Median temptation and Soviet patriotism

Chapter10 Between Media, Caucasian Albania and the Turkic world: thirst for a new view

Chapter11 Revisionists: the pan-Turkic assault

Chapter12 The struggle between the "conservatives" and the "revisionists", and a school education

Chapter13 The Struggle for Nagorny Karabagh: the clash of myths
13.1 A short overview of Karabagh's past
13.2 The Albanization of the Armenian heritage
13.3 The Albanian myth
13.4 An Armenian response
13.5 The clash of the myths
13.6 Demography, economics and ethnic minorities

Chapter14 The Nakhjivan passions

Chapter15 History and intense politics

Chapter 1 A republic with restricted sovereignty

Chapter 2 The Abkhazian republic in search of its glorious ancestors

Chapter 3 The adventures of the early Georgians in Asia Minor

Chapter 4 Eternal Georgia

Chapter 5 The Colchian mirage

Chapter 6 Turchaninov's "discovery"

Chapter 7 The Abkhazians in a struggle for the "right" past

Chapter 8 The Abkhazian-Georgian competition

Chapter 9 From competition to confrontation

Chapter10 History, religion, demography, politics

Chapter 1 Southern Ossetia in the Georgian context

Chapter 2 Scythiomania

CONCLUSIONS: ETHNOCENtrISM AND THE BREAKUP OF THE SOVIET UNION

NOTES

LITERATURE

INDEX OF AUTHORS AND PERSONAL NAMES

INDEX OF POLITICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, TRIBAL AND ETHNIC NAMES