Modern Armenia

by Libaridian, Gerard J.

• ISBN13: 9780765802057
• ISBN10: 0765802058
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Summary

Modern Armenia reviews Armenian politics and political thinking from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and the evolution of Armenians from peoplehood to statehood. Written by a key governmental advisor in the early years of Armenian independence, this book analyzes the internal dynamics of the revolutionary movement, the genocide, the Armenian diaspora, its recent independence, and the relationship of these developments to processes in the Ottoman/Turkish, Russian, and Western states. Starting with an overview of Armenian history from midnineteenth century to the 1970s, Modern Armenia proceeds to explore the dynamics that led up to and shaped the modern republic. The first part is devoted to understanding the ideologies adopted by the Armenian revolutionary movement in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire that had earlier absorbed historic Western Armenia. Libaridian examines the causes of the rise of political parties and a guerrilla movement and mutations in their strategies. He also describes the tensions within the Armenian community in the face of increasing impoverishment and Ottoman repression. In the second part

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I
1. From People to Nation: An Overview from the 1850's to the 1970's	13	(38)
Part II
2. Nation and Fatherland in Nineteenth-Century Armenian Political Thought	51	(22)
3. The Changing Armenian Self-Image in the Ottoman Empire: Rayahs and Revolutionaries	73	(16)
Part III
4. Theory and Praxis: A Perspective on the Armenian Liberation Movement, 1890-1908	89	(14)
5. Rethinking the Nation: Revolution and Liberation in the 1892 and 1907 Programs of the Dashnaktsutiune	103	(10)
6. A Case Study of Evolution: The Socialist Review Handes	113	(12)
Part IV
7. The Ideology of the Young Turk Movement	125	(12)
8. The Ultimate Repression: The Genocide of the Armenians, 1915-1917	137	(32)
9. Ideology and History: Problems in the Study of Armeno-Kurdish Relations	169	(14)
10. Re-Imagining the Past, Rethinking the Present: The Future of Turkish-Armenian Relations	183	(16)
Part V
11. From People to state, Once More: An Overview from 1980 to 2003	199	(66)
12. The Re-Imagined Future: Turkey-Armenia and Turkish-Armenian Relations since Independence	265	(18)
13. Armenia's strategic significance	283	(20)
Glossary of Terms	303	(12)
Bibliography of Modern Armenian History	315	(8)
Index	323