Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds
Book Talk
Speaker
Houri Berberian
Professor of History
Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies
University of California, Irvine
When
Thursday, October 31, 2019
5-7pm
Where
Richard Ettinghausen Library at the Hagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Square South
NYC 10012
Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian revolutionaries—minorities in all of these empires—whose movements and participation within and across frontiers tell us a great deal about the global transformations that were taking shape. Exploring the geographical and ideological boundary crossings that occurred, this archivally grounded analysis of the circulation of revolutionaries, ideas, and print tells the story of peoples and ideologies in upheaval and collaborating with each other, and in so doing it illuminates our understanding of revolutions and movements.