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Article: Reinventing the Caucasus.
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- World Policy Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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In the winter of 1919 and the spring of 1920, the British journalist C. E. Bechhofer traveled around southern Russia and the southern Caucasus. His In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919-1920 is a classic and terrifying account of a region imploding. The White armies' resistance to the Bolsheviks was crumbling and the newly independent states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan were falling apart. Bechhofer witnessed floods of refugees, famine, typhus epidemics, and terrible massacres by all sides.
Bechhofer, a fellow freelancer, was an inspiration and guide for me as I spent much of 2000 and 2001 traveling through the south Caucasus and doing research for a ...