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ARCHIVES: Agreement Between the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun and the Ittihad ve Terakki

August 7, 2010
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Agreement Between the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun) and the CUP (Committee of Union and Progress, Ittihad ve Terakki) In early July, 1908, in the Ottoman Empire, during the reign of Sultan Hamid 2-nd, the Constitution was reinforced. The constitutional movement was the culmination of cooperation between the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun and several Turkish and...
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The ARF-D in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with Dikran Kaligian

November 5, 2009
The ARF-D in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with Dikran Kaligian

By Khatchig Mouradian The Armenian Weekly November 5, 2009 Dikran Kaligian has taught history at Clark University and Regis, Westfield State, and Wheaton colleges. He is past chairperson of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern United States and managing editor of the Armenian Review. He received his Ph.D. in history from Boston...
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ARFD-CUP Relations Under Ottoman Constitutional Rule

April 20, 2009

By Dikran Kaligian The Armenian Weekly April 2009 Magazine The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD) and the Hnchak Party entered into a dialogue with Turkish opposition groups in Paris in 1900 and took part in the First Congress of Ottoman Opposition Forces in 1902. At the end of 1907, the Second Congress of Ottoman Opposition...
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The ARF-D and the Socialist International

May 23, 1996

ARF NEWS, May 1996, Volume 1.3 (3) The ARF’s relations with the Socialist International go back as far when the ARF initiated the propagation of the Armenian Question in the European circles, that is, around the mid 1890′s. In 1896, ARF-Dashnaktsutyun’s Western Bureau1 forwarded to the Socialist International its first report-memorandum expounding the organization’s structure,...
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The ARF and the Socialist International

May 15, 1996

The ARF’s relations with the Socialist International go back as far when the ARF initiated the propagation of the Armenian Question in the European circles, that is, around the mid 1890′s. In 1896, ARF-Dashnaktsutiune’s Western Bureau1 forwarded to the Socialist International its first report-memorandum expounding the organization’s structure, ideological principles and activities. It should...
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DAŠNAK

December 15, 1994

short name for Hay Yełapʿoxakan Dašnakcʿutʿiwn (Armenian revolutionary federation ) or its members. DAŠNAK (Pers. Dāšnāk), short name for Hay Yełapʿoxakan Dašnakcʿutʿiwn (Armenian revolutionary federation ) or its members. The A.R.F. was founded in Tiflis in 1890 by Russian Armenian intellectuals, including Kʿristapʿor Mikʿayēlean (1859-1905) and Simon Zawarean (1866-1913), soon joined by Stepʿan Zōrean...
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The Realm of Ideas and the Evolution of Programmatic Objectives

June 1, 1989

1) Ideological Factors in the Armenian Liberation Movement Two currents of world thought had a marked influence on Armenian avant-garde circles in the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary periods. The first, brought home from Western Europe by intellectuals who studied there, was democratic-liberal ideology, the concept of the rights of man, a legacy of the French...
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