[expand title=”The Ethnic Riots of 1905 and 1918 in Baku and Their Origins”]
Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan”
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University
Keywords: Baku, ethnic riots, Musavat, Shaumian, Dashnak Party, March Events, the Wild Division
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Edited from: “‘The Caucasus is in the Hands of Revolutionaries’: Circulation, Connections, and the Caucasian Armenians”
by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Keywords: revolutionaries, ARF, socialist, Caucasus, Iran, Ottoman, Dashnaktsutiun, Rostum, Duman, Khachaturian, mujahidin, Caucasus, Iran, Russia, Khecho
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[expand title=”Socialism and Armenian Revolutionaries”]
Edited from: “‘The Caucasus is in the Hands of Revolutionaries’: Circulation, Connections, and the Caucasian Armenians”
by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Keywords: socialism, revolutionary, nationalism, Ottoman, European, Iran, Russia, Armenia, Marxist
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[expand title=”Orthographic and Political Literacy”]
Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan
Keywords: orthographic literacy, political literacy, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Soviet
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[expand title=”Nation Building and the Dekada”]
Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”
by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University
Keywords: dekady, nationalities policy, Soviet, Stalin, imagined community, Moscow, Azerbaijan
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Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944″
by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University
Keywords: dekada, socialism, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Stalin, opera, Ker-oglu, Arshin Mal Alan, Leyli & Mejnun, Nizami
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Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”
by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University
Keywords: dekady, Soviet, opera, Druzhba Naradov, campaign, Moscow, music, nationalities policy, Armenia, Azerbaijan
[expand title=”Molla Nǝsrǝddin: A Satirical Magazine”]
Edited from: “Snoopy and the Mulla, or No Laughing Matter?”
by Edward J. Lazzerini, Indiana University
Keywords: Molla Nǝsrǝddin, Azerbaijan, satire, social criticism, archetype
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Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan”
by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University
Keywords: Kurds, history, Soviet government, Turkey, Azerbaijan
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[expand title=”Unity and Division: Azerbaijan in the 2012 Eurovision Song Context”]
Edited from: “‘Light Your Fire!’: Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest”
by Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles
Keywords: babalan, duduk, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Eurovision, Garabagh, political, music
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[expand title=”Humor and the Expression of Dissent in the Arts of Azerbaijan”]
Edited from: “Incongruent Strategies: Engagements with Humor and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art”
by Monica Steinberg, City University of New York
Keywords: Europe, humor, Huseynov, Alakbarov, Rasulov, censorship, arts, Azerbaijan, social contract
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[expand title=”Humor and Illusion: Bruce Lee and Bruce Lye”]
Edited from: “Incongruent Strategies: Engagements with Humor and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art”
by Monica Steinberg, City University of New York
Keywords: Huseynov, Bruce Lee, art, film, actor, Azerbaijan
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