Book
The impact of Soviet policies in Armenia
E. J. Brill • Leiden • Published In 1962 • Pages:
By: Matossian, Mary Allerton Kilbourne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
At the end of the First World War, Russian (Eastern) Armenia became a Soviet Socialist Republic and Western Armenia was ceded to Turkey as the culmination to mass deportations and massacres of its Armenian population, giving rise to a powerful Armenian nationalist movement. This book focuses on two strategies through which Soviet officials attempted to address this problem. The first was a political program of recruiting communists from the ranks of Armenian intellectuals and ethnic politicians. The second was modernizing traditional Armenian institutions by enforcing use of the Russian language, promoting Marxism, secularizing state structures, and organizing smallholder farmers into collectives and/or having them work for government-controlled enterprises. While highly successful in transforming traditional Armenian economy and administrative practices, these policies failed to replace Armenian identity and political aspirations with a sense of belonging to the Soviet Union or a global socialist community.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Aftermath of combat
- Form and rules of government
- Political movements
- Revolution
- External relations
- Political parties
- Political intrigue
- Social relationships and groups
- Classes
- Religious denominations
- Priesthood
- Religious experience
- Cooperative organization
- Labor relations
- Household
- Family relationships
- Status of adolescents
- Adolescent activities
- Education system
- Educational theory and methods
- Techniques of socialization
- Real property
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Research and development
- Economic planning and development
- Speech
- Verbal arts
- History
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Armenia
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caucasus
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1921–1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Armenia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Mary Kilbourne Matossian
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-239)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63024054
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Armenia--History