The 1988 Earthquake
Pierre Verluise
Translated by Levon Chorbajian
With a foreword by Gérard Chaliand
—Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno
192 pages
11 illustrations
1995 (original French edition 1989, Editions Stock, Paris)
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Armenia
in Crisis The 1988 Earthquake Pierre Verluise Translated by Levon Chorbajian With a foreword by Gérard Chaliand |
Armenia in Crisis documents the tragic Armenian earthquake and the surrounding political controversies that rocked the Soviet Union and contributed to its collapse. In sparse and griping prose, Pierre Verluise, a French journalist and Soviet specialist, uses the accounts of survivors and relief workers to tell the story of this catastrophe in its human and political dimensions. Relying on personal interviews and press reports, he recounts the destruction and despair, the emotional reactions of survivors and relief workers, the political struggles between Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Armenians, and the shortcomings in Soviet construction methods and disaster preparedness. | "Providing
a valuable historical background to a great human and ecological catastrophe
of the twentieth century, Pierre Verluise presents a brilliant analysis
of the effects of this natural disaster of problems confronting Armenia
and the Armenian people in this most recent period of Armenian national
renewal . . . A monumental work." —Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno |
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| $39.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2527-0 192 pages 11 illustrations 1995 (original French edition 1989, Editions Stock, Paris) |
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