{"product_id":"ukrainecrimearussia-9783898217613","title":"Ukraine—Crimea—Russia","description":"The Crimea was the only region of Ukraine in the 1990s where separatism arose and inter-ethnic conflict potentially could have taken place between the Ukrainian central government, ethnic Russians in the Crimea, and Crimean Tatars. Such a conflict would have inevitably drawn in Russia and Turkey. Russia had large numbers of troops in the Crimea within the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine also was a nuclear military power until 1996. This book analyses two inter-related issues. Firstly, it answers the question why Ukraine-Crimea-Russia traditionally have been a triangle of conflict over a region that Ukraine, Tatars and Russia have historically claimed. Secondly, it explains why inter-ethnic violence was averted in Ukraine despite Crimea possessing many of the ingredients that existed for Ukraine to follow in the footsteps of inter-ethnic strife in its former Soviet neighbourhood in Moldova (Trans-Dniestr), Azerbaijan (Nagorno Karabakh), Georgia (Abkhazia, South Ossetia), and Russia (Chechnya).","brand":"Taras Kuzio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48277350449403,"sku":"9783898217613","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ukrainecrimearussia-9783898217613","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}