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The author presents the wide panorama of political intrigues around Nagorno-Karabakh which began in the early 1920s when the Bolsheviks occupied the Transcaucasus and slowed down when an autonomous republic was established in the mountainous part of the contested area. The Caucasian Bureau of the C.C. R.C.P. (B.) set up in April 1920 repeatedly returned to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. A vast range of hitherto unpublished historical sources and the author's analysis of the course of events prove that under the Musavat government (1918-1920), the entire territory of Karabakh belonged to Azerbaijan. It was in April 1920, when the Bolsheviks came to power in the Transcaucasus, that it became a target of unjustified Armenian claims. Soviet Russia was actively involved in what was going on in Nagorno-Karabakh between 1920 and 1923 when the autonomous republic was set up.

The article examines the activities of the Central Yugoslavian Bureau under the Central Committee of the RCP(b) at the final stage of the Civil War. According to the Soviet and Yugoslav historiography of the socialist period, the Yugoslavian communist organizations in 1920-1921 were mainly engaged in facilitating the returnof the Yugoslavs ‒ former Austro-Hungarian subjects who participated in the Civil War on both sides – to their homeland. The documents chosen for the article make it possible to assert that these organizations did not contribute to the repatriation of compatriots as much as they tried to «appropriate» part of the powers executed by the Bolshevik punitive organs. Namely, the right to decide at own will who of the Yugoslavians is a «proletarian element» and, thus, can count on return, and who is subject to imprisonment in a concentration camp so that the hostages can be later chosen from them. In conclusion, the author gives his vision of the reasons for the closure of the mentioned organizations of the Yugoslav communists.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 THE CHALLENGE -- 1 Brief History of Indian Policy -- 2 Organizational History of the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- 3 The Bureau of Indian Affairs Today -- 4 Tribal Government -- PART 2 INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND INVOLVEMENT -- 5 Maine Indian Claims: The Resolution of a Policy Issue -- 6 The Indian Policy Milieu -- PART 3 THE FUTURE -- 7 Policy Issues -- Appendixes -- A Indian Service Population and Labor Force Estimates -- B Tourism Projects -- C Status of Nonintercourse Act Land Claims -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Indian Tribes and Groups -- About the Book and Author.