Roving Revolutionaries

Berberian, Houri

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“…But it also helped the Comintern to use Batumi as a hub, much like the Dashnak did a few decades earlier. 61 Helpful too was the mighty and zealously Bolshevik (even before Sovietisation) Sailors' Union in Batumi, which made sure that no European ship left the town without a fellow union man aboard. 62 The CPT installed a Batumi chapter to capitalise on these conditions and moved its Organisation Bureau there.…”

Section: Sailors As a Communist Hyphenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Armenian revolutionaries played a crucial role in connecting the radical spaces of Istanbul, the Caucasus, Iran, and even France, even in the early 1900s. 105 These well-established networks were instrumental in the formation of communist organisations throughout the Middle East. 106 According to one ex-Cheka member, a mission of approximately forty Armenian communists linked Batumi with Marseille, Italian ports, and Istanbul.…”

Section: Cominternian Network-making In Istanbulmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Occupied Istanbul as a Cominternian Hub: Sailors, Soldiers, and Post-Imperial Networks (1918–1923)

Sayım¹

2022

Itinerario

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Between 1918 and 1923, Istanbul was the capital of a defeated empire and occupied by the “interallied” forces composed of Britain, France, and Italy. Notwithstanding, or precisely due to, these conditions, it functioned as a vibrant hub of global communist militancy. This article explores the brief history of occupied Istanbul and discusses different agents and aspects of communist network-making. It underlines the agency of two neglected actors: a multinational body of communist sailors who connected Istanbul and its communists to European, Middle Eastern, and Soviet ports; and European and colonial soldiers stationed in Istanbul, who counterintuitively contributed to these connections. Finally, it shows how Istanbul, as the multiethnic and multilinguistic soon-to-be-former capital of the Ottoman Empire, provided a fertile ground for communist connections.

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Section: Sailors As a Communist Hyphenmentioning

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Section: Cominternian Network-making In Istanbulmentioning

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Occupied Istanbul as a Cominternian Hub: Sailors, Soldiers, and Post-Imperial Networks (1918–1923)

Sayım¹

2022

Itinerario

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“…Leading Armenian intellectuals and political activists between the Ottoman, Russian, and Persian empires had been staunchly advocating for this transition. 50 Constitutions, for them, represented a "panacea for all economic, political, and social ills and injustices." 51 One prominent leader of the Social Democratic Hnchakian Party (SDHP, founded in Geneva in 1887), Stepan-Sapah Gulian, for instance, saw the constitution as a prerequisite for the emergence of a "New Turkey."…”

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Ottoman Armenian Racialization in an American Space (1908–1914)

Torosian

2021

Mashriq&Mahjar

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, droves of former Ottoman subjects including Armenians and Syrians began to set foot in the United States searching for better opportunities. Many faced American white supremacist xenophobia and fell victim to racial discrimination. Various Ottoman diasporic communities responded to this harassment by expressing an increasing investment in the question of American whiteness and vigorously yearning to move beyond its fringes. Their voices, however, remain considerably muted; their stories are largely excluded from most American immigration narratives and conventional area-studies histories. This study endeavors to help reverse this scholarly tradition by examining the mindset of Ottoman Armenian expatriates as articulated in the editorials of Asbarēz, an Armenian-language weekly published in Fresno, California starting in 1908. As this micro-study shows, the migrants used the European racialist knowledge imported from the Ottoman empire to lay claim to whiteness and achieve integration in the US but also to affect change at home.

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Regional Fracture and Its Intractability in World Politics: The Case of the Late Ottoman Empire

Ohanyan

2021

Nationalities Papers

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Scholars have long grappled with the puzzle as to why some regions become peaceful and resilient while others crumble into perpetual insecurity. Much of the scholarship that they produced viewed regional formations as extensions of the state system. This work argues that state-centric tools to study regionalism have precluded us from uncovering regional forms of engagement under hierarchical relations of empires. They have privileged great power politics, at the expense of the political agency of non-state actors, such as minority communities, constitutional assemblies, and political parties, among others. This work highlights the lack of conceptual tools to capture historical continuity in the regional fabric of world politics. The bulk of the article engages in the methodology of concept development for regional fracture, in an effort to advance comparative regional studies historically and systematically. The concept development is then applied in the context of the Eastern Anatolian region of the late Ottoman Empire.

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Roving Revolutionaries

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Occupied Istanbul as a Cominternian Hub: Sailors, Soldiers, and Post-Imperial Networks (1918–1923)

Occupied Istanbul as a Cominternian Hub: Sailors, Soldiers, and Post-Imperial Networks (1918–1923)

Ottoman Armenian Racialization in an American Space (1908–1914)

Regional Fracture and Its Intractability in World Politics: The Case of the Late Ottoman Empire

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