Black Garden : Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War

Ali and Nino, 99, 186 
Aliev, Allahverdi, 6 
Aliev, Elkhan, 1–2 
Aliev, Heidar, 29, 51, 104, 271; and Armen­
ian Genocide debate, 79; asserts control 
after war, 251–53; and Azerbaijan Geno­
cide Day, 97, 98; background and career, 
84–85, 306; and “Black January” in 
Baku, 94–95, 307; claims on amount of 
Azerbaijani territory occupied, 285–86; 
feud with Demirchian, 17, 135–136; as 
First Party Secretary of Azerbaijan, 
134–36, 138; health problems of, 262, 
282; after Key West talks, 4–5; negoti­
ates with Kocharian, 263–65, 266–68; 
and 1994 ceasefire, 238–39; 1996–97 
peace negotiations, 255, 258; as parlia­
mentary speaker of Nakhichevan, 
160–61, 181, 210–11; reelected president 
(1998), 262; and refugees, 220–21, 285; 
resigns from Politburo, 17; secret nego­
tiations with Kocharian (1993), 226–27; 
succession to 263, 278; suspicion of mili­
tary, 106, 278; takes power (1993), 
214–15, 225–26 
Aliev, Igrar, 155 
Aliev, Ilham, 245, 263 
Aliev, Jalal, 306 
Alizade, Zardusht, 67, 82, 88, 89, 91 
Allahverdiev, Rafael, 85 
Andranik (Armenian guerrilla leader), 
128, 168, 208 
Andropov, Yury, 17 
Ani (Armenian American woman in 
Nagorky Karabakh), 248–50 
Anoush (Armenian living in Shusha), 
49–50 
Ararat, Mount, 76–77 
Araxes River, 96, 143, 216, 219, 220, 227, 
236 
Argumenty i Fakty, 167 
Armenia: acquires weapons, 197–200; 
army formation in, 206–9, 210, 257; 
Azerbaijani railway blockade of (1989), 
87; Azerbaijanis deported from, 62–63, 
97, 105; becomes independent state 
(1991), 160–61; claims on NK, 125–26, 
129–31; demographics of, 133, 284, 
305–6; demonstrations in (1988), 22–25, 
28; earthquake in, 7, 63, 64; economic 
hardships of, 205–6, 270, 277; fear of 
Turkey, 274–75; First Republic, 60–61, 
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Armenia (continued) 
75, 127–28; inter-communal tensions in, 
18–19; and Khrushchev thaw, 136–37; 
and 1915 Genocide, 44, 75–79, 127, 137, 
249, 275, 277, 306; opposition forms in, 
56–59; preparedness for war (1991), 
162–64; presidential elections (1996), 
257–58; presidential elections (1998), 
262; shootings in parliament (1999), 
265–66, 319; as Soviet Union Republic, 
131–36; trade with Azerbaijan via Geor­
gia, 269–70; “war of laws” with Azer­
baijan, 60–61, 162; Yerevan Armenian 
Army of Independence (AAI), 111–12 
Armenian Diaspora, 4, 64, 80, 207, 234, 
247, 248–50, 256, 259, 264, 277 
Armenian National Army (ANA), 111–12 
Armenian National Movement (ANM), 
62, 111, 114, 117, 122, 257, 264 
Armenians of Azerbaijan, 32–36, 63, 87, 
90–91, 100–105, 274, 285. See also Baku; 
Nagorny Karabakh (region); Sumgait 
Artsakh, 8, 149
Asadov, Etimar, 106
Askeran, 174; deaths at, in February 1988,
15, 300 
Avsharian, Gagik, 173–74, 178–79, 184 
Azerbaijan: acquires weaponry (1992), 
197–99, 315; amount of territory occu­
pied by Armenians, 285–86; becomes in-
dependent state (1991), 160–61; “Black 
January” in, 83, 89–95, 101–2, 274, 285; 
Bolshevik takeover of, 86–87, 129; 
claims to NK, 125–26, 129–131; Defense 
Ministry formed, 163–65; demographics 
of, 133, 284; ethnic diversity of, 29; fear 
of Russia, 51, 220, 274–75; first political 
protests in (1988), 29; First Republic of 
(1918–20), 96, 99, 127; formation of 
army, 206–9; Genocide Day in, 96–98; 
history of, 96, 97, 127–28; improved re­
lations with Russia, 261–62, 266, 276; 
inter-communal tension in (1987), 18; 
and Iran, 30, 86; and Khrushchev thaw, 
136–37; oil economy of, 98–99, 106–7, 
252–53, 262–63, 277–78; political ten­
sions in (1989), 86–89; preparedness for 
war (1991), 162–64; self-image of, 44; as 
Soviet Union Republic, 131–36; Sumgait 
crisis in, 31–44; refugees in, 5–6, 215–16, 
217–24, 270, 278, 285, 304; rejects re­
gional cooperation with Armenia, 270; 
state of army, 278–79; trade with Arme­
nia via Georgia, 269–70; “war of laws” 
with Armenia, 60–61; war veterans in, 
105–6. See also Baku; Sumgait 
Azerbaijanis of Armenia, 44, 62–63, 79–81, 
97, 105, 273, 285. See also Yerevan 
Azgaldian, Leonid, 111 
Babajanian, Hamazasp, 18
Babayan, Aramais, 19
Babayan, Samvel, 173–74, 210, 239, 279;
abuses committed by, 242–43; back-
ground of, 227, 317; trial of, 241–45; 
wields power in Armenia, 256–57 
Babayan, Valery, 171
Baburian, Karen, 226, 238
Bagdasarian, Rafik (Svo), 206
Baghramov, Nizami, 238
Bagirov, Kamran, 12, 29, 58, 301
Bagirov, Mir Jafar, 138
Bagirov, Sabit, 95
Bagramian, Ivan, 18
Bakatin, Vadim, 63
Baker, James, 4