Houri Berberian Libros

Focusing on the Armenian minority's significant contributions during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, this book explores their intellectual, political, and military roles from 1905 to 1911. It delves into the motivations behind their involvement, the foundations of their participation, and the dynamics of their relationships with both Armenian and Iranian constitutionalists, highlighting both collaboration and conflict. This comprehensive analysis sheds light on the complexities of ethnic and religious identities within the broader revolutionary context.

Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now.  Roving Revolutionaries  probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian revolutionaries—minorities in all of these empires—whose movements and participation within and across frontiers tell us a great deal about the global transformations that were taking shape. Exploring the geographical and ideological boundary crossings that occurred, Houri Berberian’s archivally grounded analysis of the circulation of revolutionaries, ideas, and print tells the story of peoples and ideologies in upheaval and collaborating with each other, and in so doing it illuminates our understanding of revolutions and movements.