Witnesses and ‘Memorizers’ in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict The goal of my research is to study relationships between collective memory and individual, the complexities of what is called collective memory, as well as to examine the relationship between memory and history in the Karabakh case...

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic: An Untold History of Efforts to Preserve Azerbaijan’s Islamic Legacy The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, established 93 years ago this past week as the first republic in the Muslim world, played an enormous role not only in the history of the Azerbaijani people but in that of the entire Muslim world...

Witnessing the War in Nagorno-Karabakh: Shusha’s IDPs Testify Those who were forced to flee their homes as a result of the Armenian occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory represent an important and as yet largely untapped resource of information about that conflict and the formation of ideas and identities of a far broader community about the war...

Ethnic Relations in Baku During the First Oil Boom Tsarist Russia was a multinational state in which ethno-religious conflicts were not uncommon. They took place in different parts of the empire—in Kishinev, Gomel, Mogilev, Shusha, Ganja, Baku, Yerevan, Tiflis and Moscow, as well as in other places. But during the Soviet period, they were little studied, because the existence of conflicts among the working class contradicted communist ideology...

Ethnic Relations in the Schools of Azerbaijan during the Crises of 1905 and 1918 The political crises of 1905 and 1918 affected all institutions of Azerbaijani society, none more than the schools, as recently opened materials in the Azerbaijan National Archive show. In both years, students met, organized, staged protests and submitted petitions calling for freedom of thought and freedom of assembly within the walls of the school...