Ukraine-Crimea-Russia - Triangle of Conflict (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society)

by Taras Kuzio

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The Crimea was the only region of Ukraine in the 1990s where separatism arose and inter-ethnic conflict potentially could have taken place between the Ukrainian central government, ethnic Russians in the Crimea, and Crimean Tatars. Such a conflict would have inevitably drawn in Russia and Turkey. Russia had large numbers of troops in the Crimea within the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine also was a nuclear military power until 1996.This book analyses two inter-related issues. Firstly, it answers the question why Ukraine-Crimea-Russia traditionally have been a triangle of conflict over a region that Ukraine, Tatars and Russia have historically claimed. Secondly, it explains why inter-ethnic violence was averted in Ukraine despite Crimea possessing many of the ingredients that existed for Ukraine to follow in the footsteps of inter-ethnic strife in its former Soviet neighbourhood in Moldova (Trans-Dniestr), Azerbaijan (Nagorno Karabakh), Georgia (Abkhazia, South Ossetia), and Russia (Chechnya).
  • ISBN10 3898217612
  • ISBN13 9783898217613
  • Publish Date 8 December 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 258
  • Language English