Liberation and Revolution: Critical Essays in Modern Armenian History

Gerard J. Libaridian

London: Gomidas Institute, 2024,

x + 248 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-909382-73-2, pb.,

UK£30.00 / US$35.00

To order please contact books@gomidas.org

[From the foreword] This volume offers twelve essays on modern and contemporary Armenian history, on the problems of writing that history, and how it is used and abused. The essays were written over a span of 45 years, the first being a 1979 paper which has been reproduced without any changes. These have been selected on the basis of their relevance today, while leaving out many important pieces that have already been published or that could not be accommodated in this volume. Six of the essays appear here for the first time. While written at different times and on different occasions and can be read independently of each other, the collection can be seen as a whole considering the themes underlying the subjects covered.

Contents:
1. "Nation” and "Fatherland” in nineteenth Century Western Armenian Political Thought, 1983.

2. Soviet Armenia, 1979.

3. Armenian Earthquakes and Soviet Tremors, 1989.

4. Mgrdich Khrimian: Revolutionary Traditionalist, or Conservative Revolutionary?

5. Ideology and Reality: Hnchakian Paradoxes at Birth

6. What was Revolutionary about Armenian Revolutionary Parties in the Ottoman Empire?

7. Church and Political Parties in Armenian History.

8. The Past as a Prison, the Past as a Different Future, 2005

9. Historical Agency and Eternal Victimhood: Do Armenia and Armenians Matter in History?

10. The "Garbage Bin” Approach to History and its Discontents, 2018.

11. How to Write the History of the Third Republic, or How not to Write It, 2015.

12. From Historian to Diplomat: The Writing of History Before and After Participating in its Making, 2011/2021.

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