Armenian Organization and Ideology Under Ottoman Rule: 1908–1914
Kaligian, Dikran Mesrob · 2009
A documentary study of the ARF during the Ottoman constitutional period, built on the party's own internal records read against British, American and German diplomatic archives. Kaligian reconstructs how the ARF organized, governed itself, and operated as a legal parliamentary party after 1908. The book's central target is the historiographical dispute over ARF relations with the Committee of Union and Progress, which he sets out to resolve by reducing the overemphasis on external accounts. It gives a comprehensive picture of Armeno-Turkish relations across the brief window of constitutional rule.
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Kaligian, Dikran Mesrob 2009. Armenian Organization and Ideology Under Ottoman Rule: 1908–1914. Transaction Publishers (2009); Routledge edition 2011; 273 pp.; ISBN 9781412842457.
What this offers a reader
If you only read one book on the ARF and the Young Turks, this is it, and it is built from the party's own files.
The best archival account of ARF-CUP relations; based on the author's doctoral work in the ARF archives.
The scholarly answer to the claim that we provoked what came next: the ARF was working inside the law.
What the ARF's own internal records show about its dealings with the Young Turks.
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