The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party

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List of Contributors

Introduction: The Social Democrat Hnchakian Party in the Course of History

Bedross Der Matossian

Part I From Inception to the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920)

1. The History of a Group Picture and the Foundation Date of a "Revolutionary Society" in Geneva
Abel Manoukian

2. The Hnchakian "Nay" to Young Turk Overtures, 1895-1908
Garabet K. Moumdjian

3. A Newly Discovered Letter of Sabah-Gulian to Paramaz
Yeghig Jeredjian

4. The Hnchakian Party and the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920)
Richard G. Hovannisian

Part II Regional and Local Histories

5. Armenians, Muslims, Citizens: Hnchak Pamphleteering in Central Anatolia
Toygun Altintas

6. Peasants, Pastoralists, and Revolutionaries: Hnchakians and Armeno-Kurdish Relations in Late Ottoman Eastern Anatolia
Varak Ketsemanian

7. The Hnchakian Revolutionary Party in Aintab: Founders, Ideology and Structure
Ümit Kurt

8. Absolute Monarchy: The Social Democrat Hnchakian Revolutionary Episode in Armenian Musa Dagh during the 1890s
Vahram Shemmassian

9. The Hnchakian Party in the Armenian Communities of South America: An Outline of its Early History
Vartan Matiossian


Part III Ideology

10. Ideology and Reality: Hnchakian Paradoxes at Birth
Gerard J. Libaridian

11. The Social Democrat Hnchakian Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation,
Fraternal Twins or Semi-Identical Twins?
Gaïdz Minassian

12. The Istanbul Students' Union of the Social Democrat Hnchakian Party and its Periodical Kaytz (1911-1914)
Yasar Tolga Cora

13. In the Footsteps of Hidden History: The Roots of Socialism in the Ottoman Empire
Kadir Akin

Biographical Notes
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