Japanese-born Goltz (Montana State U.-Bozeman) has been a political writer and academic in the US for most of his life. His account of his experience in the Republic of Georgia was first published in
The author, a journalist who covered the region in the early 1990s, relates the events that he saw in a style he refers to as "history as contact journalism." He covers the coups, the civil uprisings,
In its first years as an independent state, Azerbaijan was a prime example of post-Soviet chaos - beset by coups and civil strife and astride an ethnic, political and religious divide. Author Goltz wa
