Communication

Communication and Transportation

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: time-space compression, telegraph, railway, tsarist, Caucasus, Armenian, Ottoman, Georgia, ARF, Terakki

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Modern Printing Presses, Newspapers and Cultural Societies in Baku

Edited from: “The Move South: the Emergence of Baku as a Socio-Cultural and Educational Center of the Late-Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Azerbaijani Turkish Intelligentsia”
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University

Keywords: Baku, Newspapers

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Literacy as an Element of Sovietization

Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan

Keywords: literacy, print socialism, TSFSR, Soviet

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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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Pathways to Literacy

Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan

Keywords: Baku, Tbilisi, liktpunkt, TSFSR, reading, room, literacy, Armenia

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The Georgian Feast: From Structure to History

Edited from: “The Literary Origins of the Georgian feast: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of a National Ritual”
by Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley

Keywords: Feast, toast, supra, Banquet, tamada

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Linguistic Incongruence

Edited from: “Incongruent Strategies: Engagements with Humor and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art”
by Monica Steinberg, City University of New York

Keywords: Azerbaijan, Arabic, Turkish, Cyrillic

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