Armenia

Portraits of Survival and Hope

By: Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller, Jerry Berndt (Photographer)

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Hardcover | 15 September 2003 | Edition Number 1

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A remarkable view of how geopolitics affects ordinary people, this book documents, in words and pictures, the lives of Armenians in the last two decades. Based on intimate interviews with three hundred Armenians and featuring Jerry Berndt's superb photographs, it brings together firsthand testimony about the social, economic, and spiritual circumstances of Armenians during the 1980s and 1990s, when the country faced an earthquake, pogroms, and war. At times shocking and deeply emotional, Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope is a story of extreme suffering and hardship, a searching look at the fight for independence, and an exceptionally complex portrait of the human spirit.

A companion to the Millers' highly acclaimed work Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide, which documented the genocide of 1915, this book focuses on four groups of people: survivors of the earthquakes that devastated northwestern Armenia in 1988; refugees from Azerbaijan who fled Baku and Sumgait because of pogroms against them; women, children, and soldiers who were affected by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh; and ordinary citizens who survived several winters without heat because of the blockade against Armenia by Turkey and Azerbaijan. The Millers' narrative situates these accounts contextually and thematically, but the voices of individuals remain paramount. The Millers also describe their personal experiences in repeated research trips, inviting us to look beyond the headlines and think beyond the circumstances of our own lives as they bring contemporary Armenia to life.

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"Documents the lives of Armenians in the 1980s and 1990s, when the country faced an earthquake, pogrom and war."--"The Bookseller"

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Massive Destruction The 1988 Earthquake
Random Violence Pogroms in Azerbaijan
Fighting for Survival The War of Independence in Nagorno-Karabakh
Surviving the Winter Paying the Price for Independence
"We Live with Hope" Reflections on Conditions in Armenia
Concluding Reflections The Meaning of Being Human Epilogue Ten Years after Independence
Research Methodology
Interview Guide
List of Interviewees
Bibliography
Index
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