History

The First Oil Boom in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and Its Impact on the Cosmopolitan Nature of Baku

Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan”
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University

Keywords: oil, Baku, ethnic minorities, religion, Jews, Russians, Armenians

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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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Cosmopolitan Baku During the Soviet Period

Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan”
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University

Keywords: Baku, Soviet era, proletariat, Bakintsi, Jews, Armenians, ethnic minorities, migration

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Baku as a National Capital of Independent Azerbaijan

Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan”
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University

Keywords: Baku, Nagorno Karabakh War, displacement, migration, emigration, refugees, population, diversity

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Cultural and Social Background of the City of Tbilisi

Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi”
by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University

Keywords: Tbilisi, multi-ethnic, religious landscape, secularization

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Preservation of the Armenian Religious Heritage in Georgia

Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi”
by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University

Keywords: de-secularization, wars of memory, Georgian Orthodox Church, Armenian Apostolic Church, nationalistic, Georgianization, Father Tariel, Norashen, Surb Nshan, Sahakashvili

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The Armenian Diasporic Community of Tbilisi

Edited from: “Contesting the Religious Landscape: Social and Cultural Background of Discourses on Georgianization of the Armenian Churches in Tbilisi”
by Yulia Antonyan, Yerevan State University

Keywords: diaspora, Armenia, Tbilisi, Vardaton, Sayat Nova,Vernatun, Hayartun, churches question

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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: revolutionaries, ARF, socialist, Caucasus, Iran, Ottoman, Dashnaktsutiun, Rostum, Duman, Khachaturian, mujahidin, Caucasus, Iran, Russia, Khecho

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Revolutionaries and the Printed Word

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: Marx, Das Capital, Russian, literacy, Ottoman, Caucasus, Iran, oil fields, Baku, hayduk, literacy, ARF, revolution

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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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A Brief Historical Characterization of 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, Bakinskaia guberniia, oil boom, intelligentsia

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Role of Women in the Development of Literacy Programs

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

Keywords: literacy, reading rooms, women, Tbilisi, Baku

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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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Definition of Dekady

Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”
by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University

Keywords: dekada, Moscow, Stalin, Friendship of the Peoples, nationalities policy, bratskii

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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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Participation of Azeribaijan and Georgia in the Dekady

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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Music as a Universal Language

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

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International Relief in Transcaucasia: World War I

Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period”
by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University

Keywords: Friends of Armenia , Near East Relief (NER), Lord Mayor’s Fund for Armenian Refugees (LMF), American Relief Administration (ARA), Armenian refugees

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Emergency Relief and ‘Temporary Measures’ in Transcaucausia in the Inter-War Period

Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period”
by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University

Keywords: Near East Relief (NER), Friends of Armenia, the Friends (Quakers) Armenian Relief Mission, Baqubah refugees

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The Nansen Scheme

Edited from: “Transcaucasia and Transnational Relief and Resettlement in the Inter-War Period”
by Jo Laycock, Sheffield Hallam University

Keywords: Nansen Scheme, International Labour Organization (ILO), resettlement, Lord Mayor Fund (LMF)

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Kurds

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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Talyshes

Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan”
by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University

Keywords: Talysh, history, Iran, Azerbaijan, Soviet government

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Tats

Edited from: “Offences of the National Memory: Political Orientation and Ethnic Identity in the Soviet Azerbaijan”
by Shalala Mammadova, Baku State University

Keywords: Tats, history, Turkey, Iran, Azerbajian, Soviet government

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Church Architecture: Mren, Zvart'nots' and Ptłni

Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University

Keywords: architecture, churches, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, domed basilica, cruciform, barrel vaults, rotunda, ambulatory, Holy Sepulchre, capitals, domes, Mren, Zvart’nots’, Ptłni

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The Golden Age of Architecture in a Shifting Socio-Political World

Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University

Keywords: Holy Land, Heraclius, tympanum, Byzantine, Persian, Mren, Ptłni, Zvart’nots’

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Relics and Monuments of the Holy Land: The Churches of Mren and Zvart'nots'

Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University

Keywords: Return of the Cross, relief sculpture, Heraclius, Armenia, Persian, Jerusalem, Byzantine, Kren, Zvart’nots’

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Local Visual and Ritual Practices in the Church of Ptłni

Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University

Keyworks: social history, Ptłni, Zvart’nots’, Mren, churches, Eucharist, medieval, noble life

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The Genocide of the Armenians and the Jews

Edited from: “Armenians and Jews: Neighbors in Memory”
by Harutyun Marutyan, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

Keywords: Genocide, Holocaust, massacre

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Why and In What Circumstances Did Catholics From Erzurum Come to Western Georgia and Partly to Northern Armenia?

Edited from: “‘Franks’: Armenian Catholics in Armenia and Georgia in the 20th Century. Preliminary Results of Historical and Oral History Studies”
by Jakub Osiecki, Pontifical University of John Paul II

Keywords: Armenian Franks, Catholics, Ottoman vilayet, Tsarists Russia

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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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Elnur Asadov: An Azeribaijan Migrant in Moscow

Edited from: “(Un)Welcome Guests: Caucasus Traders in Late Soviet Leningrad and Moscow”
by Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University

Keywords: friendship of the peoples, Brezhnev, Azerbaijan, Moscow, informal economy

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The Religious History of the Caucasus

Edited from: “St George in the Caucasus: Singular and Plural”
by Kevin Tuite, Montréal/Jena

Keywords: Christianity, Eastern Georgia, Western Georgia, Greek Deities

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The St. George Cult

Edited from: “St. George in the Caucasus: Singular and Plural”
by Kevin Tuite, Montréal/Jena

Keywords: St. George, History, Iconography, linguistics

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