Հայկական սփյուռքի ձևավորման գործընթացը 1920-ական թվականներին (The Formation Process of the Armenian Diaspora in the 1920s)
Moskovyan, Lusine · 2025
Examines the situation created after the Armenian Genocide, when a large part of the Armenian population was settled outside the borders of the homeland. The article presents the 'Spiritual Armenia' (Հոգևոր Հայաստան) ideology developed by Dashnaktsutyun figures as the ideological foundation for consolidating the diaspora. It clarifies and analyzes the Armenian term 'սփյուռք' and reviews historians' positions on how the term evolved and was applied in the Armenian context. It then gives a comprehensive picture of the geographic distribution and demographic size of the Armenian diaspora during its formative decade, the 1920s, across the Middle East and the United States.
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Moskovyan, Lusine 2025. Հայկական սփյուռքի ձևավորման գործընթացը 1920-ական թվականներին (The Formation Process of the Armenian Diaspora in the 1920s). Պատմություն և մշակույթ / History and Culture, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 151–162 (Yerevan State University Publishing House); DOI 10.46991/hc.2025.22.1.151. https://doi.org/10.46991/hc.2025.22.1.151
What this offers a reader
The origin story of the diaspora itself, including where the word 'սփյուռք' comes from; Armenian-language.
Peer-reviewed diaspora history from YSU; strong on the ideological work of ARF figures in the 1920s.
Our own party's thinkers built the ideological frame that held the diaspora together: this documents it.
How a scattered population of survivors became a diaspora with an idea of itself.
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