Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887–1912)
Ter Minassian, Anahide · 1984
A compact study of how nationalism and socialism interacted inside the Armenian revolutionary parties between the founding of the Hunchakian party and the eve of the First World War. Ter Minassian examines the ideological formation of the Dashnaktsutyun and the Hunchaks against the background of Russian populism, Marxism and the Balkan movements, and traces debates over federalism, class struggle and the 'Specifists.' The volume gives sustained treatment to Kristapor Mikayelian, Droshak, the party congresses, the fedayi, and the ARF's relation to the Social Democrats. It remains a pioneering scholarly treatment of socialist currents in the Ottoman and Russian Armenian context.
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Ter Minassian, Anahide 1984. Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887–1912). Zoryan Institute, Cambridge, MA (Zoryan Institute Thematic Series, no. 1); 69 pp.; ISBN 0916431045; translated from the French by A.M. Berrett.
What this offers a reader
The clearest short account of what the ARF actually believed, and how it argued with the Marxists.
Pioneering ideological history by a leading French-Armenian historian; published by the Zoryan Institute.
The socialist half of our own tradition, taken seriously.
How the ARF held nationalism and socialism together, and where it strained.
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