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Event Videos — #AuthorTalk

The Armenian Genocide: Writing the "Complete History"

The Armenian Genocide: Writing the "Complete History"

Renowned historian Raymond Kévorkian has written an exhaustive and authoritative account of the origins, events, and consequences of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and 1916. Originally published in French in 2006 as Le Génocide des ArméniensThe Armenian Genocide: A Complete History presents a detailed and meticulous record of the genocidal process, providing an authoritative analysis of the events and their impact upon the Armenian community itself, as well as the development of the Turkish state.

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THE RUINS OF ANI: From Sacred Landscape to Political Soil

THE RUINS OF ANI: From Sacred Landscape to Political Soil

National Association for Armenian Studies and Research NAASR event video of talk by Peter Balakian and Aram Arkun, “The Ruins of Ani: From Sacred Landscape to Political Soil,” at the NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA Co-sponsored by Tekeyan Cultural Association Greater Boston and NAASR/Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues. Video by Jirair Hovsepian

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Gha-ra-bagh! The National Democratic Movement in Armenia (1997)

Gha-ra-bagh! The National Democratic Movement in Armenia (1997)

Mark Malkasian discusses Gha-ra-bagh! The Emergence of the National Democratic Movement in Armenia, which chronicles the initial stages of the former Soviet Union's first mass national democratic movement. The popular ground swell, which came to be known as the Karabagh movement, transformed the political consciousness of Soviet Armenians and led them to challenge the legitimacy of the Soviet system.

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