Looking Toward Ararat Armenia in Modern History

Name: Looking Toward Ararat Armenia in Modern History
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ISBN: 9780253207739

ISBN-10: 0253207738

ISBN-13: 9780253207739

Edition: 1993

Authors: Ronald Grigor Suny

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As a new independent Republic of Armenia is established among the ruins of the Soviet Union, Armenians are rethinking their history -- the processes by which they arrived at statehood in a small part of their historic homeland, and the definitions they might give to boundaries of their nation. Both a victim and a beneficiary of rival empires, Armenia experienced a complex evolution as a divided or an erased polity with a widespread diaspora.Ronald Grigor Suny traces the cultural and social transformations and interventions that created a new sense of Armenian nationality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Perceptions of antiquity and uniqueness combined in the popular imagination…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/22/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: From National Character to National Tradition



Imagining Armenia



Armenia and Its Rulers



Images of the Armenians in the Russian Empire



The Emergence of the Armenian Patriotic Intelligentsia in Russia



Populism, Nationalism, and Marxism among Russia's Armenians



Labor and Socialism among Armenians in Transcaucasia



Rethinking the Unthinkable: Toward an Understanding of the Armenian Genocide



State, Nation, Diaspora



Armenia and the Russian Revolution



Building a Socialist Nation



Stalin and the Armenians



Return to Ararat: Armenia in the Cold War



The New Nationalism in Armenia



Nationalism and Democracy: The Case of Karabagh



Looking toward Ararat: The Diaspora and the "Homeland"



Armenia on the Road to Independence, Again


Notes


Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages on Modern Armenian History


Index