The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century
Nalbandian, Louise · 1963
The first comprehensive English-language study of the nineteenth-century Armenian revolutionary movement and the rise of the Armenian political parties. It traces armed struggle against Ottoman rule from the uprising of 1862 to the massacres of 1896, and charts the shift from loose secret societies to organized parties: the Armenakan (1885), the Hunchakian Revolutionary Party, and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Nalbandian situates the party programs within Armenian political and intellectual history and clarifies their sources, objectives and results. Because Armenian leaders engaged the socio-economic theories of their day, she also examines the parties' relationship to revolutionary movements in Western Europe, Russia and the Balkans.
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Nalbandian, Louise 1963. The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles; xi + 247 pp.; ISBN 9780520303850 (Voices Revived reissue).
What this offers a reader
The standard starting point for the founding of the ARF and the parties it competed with.
The foundational English-language monograph; still the reference work on party formation.
Where our party came from, and what it was arguing with.
How Armenians organized into political parties in the nineteenth century.
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