Audrey L. Altstadt received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has received postdoctoral fellowships from the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and the George F. Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies. She conducted research in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the 1980–81 and 1984–85 and was the first American to gain access to the Azerbaijan State Historical Archives. She is currently a member of the history department at the University of Masschusetts at Amherst.
"Altstadt's book does a masterly job of analyzing the complex
relationship between Azerbaijan and its colonizers over an extended
period."
"On the basis of solid research...Altstadt provides a fascinating
study of the long Russian and Soviet rule."
"This is a very useful book, For the first time we have in one
volume the history of a crucially important republic."
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