The Rise and Fall of the Hunchak Party
For the first time, a book in English traces the history of the Social Democrat Hunchak Party, which has been largely overlooked in Armenian historiography.
Tigran Yegavian has a Masters in Comparative Politics from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a BA in Arabic from the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). He is a freelance journalist and researcher at the French Intelligence Research Center (CF2R). He works in particular on Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world, the Armenian diaspora and the Christian diasporas of the East. His last published book is "Minorities of the Orient, the Forgotten Ones of History" (translated into Armenian in 2020, Actualt Art editions).
For the first time, a book in English traces the history of the Social Democrat Hunchak Party, which has been largely overlooked in Armenian historiography.
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