Manifestations of the Theme of the Memory of the Medz Yeghern and Germans' Complicity During the Years of Stalin's Regime
Marutyan, Harutyun · 2024
Marutyan examines historical novels, autobiographical fiction and prose published in Soviet Armenia during and after the Great Patriotic War in which the Armenian Genocide was depicted in realistic and grim colors. He shows these works portrayed not only Turkish and Kurdish atrocities but also justified attention to German participation in the Genocide, and in some cases attacked European bourgeois diplomacy for obstructing a solution to the Armenian Question. Many of the texts also carry obligatory praise of the Soviet order and of Stalin. The study covers Gegham Saryan, Garnik Stepanyan, Hrachya Kochar, Kristapor Tapaltsyan, Onik Panikyan and Paruyr Sevak.
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Marutyan, Harutyun 2024. Manifestations of the Theme of the Memory of the Medz Yeghern and Germans' Complicity During the Years of Stalin's Regime. Ցեղասպանագիտական հանդես / Journal of Genocide Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 57–81 (AGMI Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/jgs.0057. https://doi.org/10.51442/jgs.0057
What this offers a reader
Corrects a common assumption: Genocide memory was not simply erased in the USSR before 1965.
Literary-historical study by AGMI's director; useful on the politics of memory under Stalin.
Our writers kept the memory alive under Soviet rule, in the only language the censors would allow.
How Armenians in the Soviet Union wrote about the Genocide when they supposedly could not.
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