The Tsar's Armenians: A Minority in Late Imperial Russia
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Tsar's Armenians: A Minority in Late Imperial Russia
By (Author) Onur nol
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
I.B. Tauris
31st October 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Revolutionary groups and movements
European history
Nationalism
First World War
Colonialism and imperialism
947.00491992
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
336g
Description
In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree allowing the confiscation of Armenian Church property, marking the low point in relations between imperial Russia and its Armenian subjects. Yet just over a decade later, Russian Armenians were fully supportive of the Russian war effort. Drawing on previously untouched archival material and a range of secondary sources published in English, French, Russian and Turkish, this is the first English-language study of this drastic change in relations in the Caucasus. Onur Onol explains how and why the shift took place by looking in detail at the imperial Russian authorities and their relationship with the three pillars of the Russian Armenian community: the Armenian Church, the Armenian bourgeoisie and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutiun). Onol places the evolution within a context of wider political questions, such as the Russian revolutionary movement, Russia's nationalities question, Tsarist fears of pan-Islamism, the path to World War I and the influence of key characters in Russian policy making, from Pyotr Stolypin to Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov.This book fills a conspicuous void in the extant historiography, and will be of interest to scholars working on Russian, Armenian and Ottoman history.
Reviews
A skilled storyteller, nol must be commended for presenting a complex chapter of Russian, Armenian, and Caucasian history in an accessible, persuasive manner. The books narrow chronological scope, moreover, affords it a level of detail that is elusive in most studies of this or related topics. * Slavic Review *
Author Bio
Onur Onol is an instructor in the Department of History at Bilkent University, Ankara, where he has worked since receiving his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. He is a contributor to War and Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State and regularly presents papers on late imperial Russia at conferences internationally.
