Thomas Goltz, when not teaching in the Political Science Department at Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana), rides the highways and byways of the Caucasus, and is the author of three critical books on the region: “Azerbaijan Diary;” “Chechnya Diary” and “Georgia Diary.”
Authors articles:
Black January as the Azerbaijani Fourth of July
On the night that I agreed to write my analysis about the events of January 19/20 1990 in Baku, then capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan (AzSSR), I left my new Senior Political Science project class at Montana State University, walked to my car and reflected on the real and true level of international-awareness among my fourth-year “Capstone” graduating students, and sighed...
The Olympics War
Thomas Goltz, when not teaching in the Political Science Department at Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana), rides the highways and byways of the Caucasus, and is the author of three critical books on the region: “Azerbaijan Diary;” “Chechnya Diary” and “Georgia Diary.” Below is an excerpt from the updated Epilogue of his “Georgia Diary.” The paperback version of Goltz’s book will be re-issued by M.E. Sharpe in January, 2009...
