The Tsar's Armenians: A Minority in Late Imperial Russia

Author:   Onur Önol (TED University, Turkey)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781838607043


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Onur Önol (TED University, Turkey)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781838607043


ISBN 10:   1838607048
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: The Russian Armenians in the Sea of Troubles: From Confiscation to Revolution (1903–1907) CHAPTER 2: Russia against the Dashnaktsutiun (1907–1912) CHAPTER 3: St. Petersburg against Tiflis: The Relations between the Russian Administration and the Armenian Church (1907-1912) CHAPTER 4: The National Question in the South Caucasus: Relations between the Viceroyalty and the Armenian Bourgeoisie (1907-1912) CHAPTER 5: Russia as Patron and Defender: The Armenian Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and their Impact on Russian-Armenians (1912-1914) CONCLUSION

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A skilled storyteller, Önol must be commended for presenting a complex chapter of Russian, Armenian, and Caucasian history in an accessible, persuasive manner. The book’s narrow chronological scope, moreover, affords it a level of detail that is elusive in most studies of this or related topics. * Slavic Review *


A skilled storyteller, OEnol must be commended for presenting a complex chapter of Russian, Armenian, and Caucasian history in an accessible, persuasive manner. The book's narrow chronological scope, moreover, affords it a level of detail that is elusive in most studies of this or related topics. * Slavic Review *


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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.

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