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Letters from the Soviet ‘Paradise’ : The Image of Russia among the Western Armenian Diaspora
Nona Shahnazarian · 2012
Catalogue summary
Letters, jokes, and anecdotes from the Western Armenian Diaspora construct changing images of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, combining admiration and criticism with expectations surrounding Armenian Genocide recognition.
Why this matters
The everyday materials reveal how diaspora memory and political judgment shaped Armenian perceptions of Russia across two successive state orders.
Citation
Nona Shahnazarian 2012. Letters from the Soviet ‘Paradise’ : The Image of Russia among the Western Armenian Diaspora. Journal of Eurasian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euras.2012.09.001
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