Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887–1912)
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.