The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History

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This book, based on new research, sheds light on the history of the Social Democrat Hnchakian Party, a major Armenian revolutionary party that operated in the Ottoman Empire, Turkish Republic, Russia, Persia and throughout the global Armenian diaspora. Divided into sections which cover the origins, ideology, and regional history of the SDHP, the book situates the history of the Hnchaks within debates around socialism, populism, and nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The SDHP was not only an Armenian party but had a global Marxist outlook, and scholars in this volume bring to bear expertise in a wide range of histories and languages including Russian, Turkish, Persian and Latin American to trace the emergence and role this influential party played from their split with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the events of the Armenian genocide to the formation of the first Armenian Republic and then Soviet Armenia. Putting the Hnchaks in context as one of many nationalist radical groups to emerge in Eurasia in the late 19th century, the book is an important contribution to Armenian historiography as well as that of transnational revolutionary movements in general.

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Bedross der Matossian is Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He is the author Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (2014), The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early 20th Century (2022) and the editor of The First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920) on its Centenary: Politics, Gender, and Diplomacy (2020), co-editor of Western Armenian in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Approaches (2019) and the Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem (2018).