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Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History
Ronald Grigor Suny, 1993 · Indiana University Press
Cited by events (3)
- Russian closure of Armenian parochial schools 1885
- Russian confiscation of Armenian Apostolic Church properties 1903
- Yerevan demonstrations on the 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide 1965
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Event Shusha pogrom (1905) 5 cites - By 1905 Shusha was the symbolic capital of highland Karabakh, with a substantial Armenian quarter, a Muslim Azerbaijani quarter, churches, mosques, schools, printing houses and a dense bilingual elite culture.
- The August 1905 fighting began with attacks on the Armenian quarter of Shusha and spread into armed clashes across the town, with Armenian fedayeen counter-attacking and casualties on both sides.
- Contemporary reports and later memoirs disagree on the precise sequencing of the August violence, on whether the first attack was locally planned or provoked by outside armed groups, and on total casualties for both communities.
- Sections of the Armenian quarter were burned during the August 1905 violence; residents fled between quarters; and previously mixed urban spaces became dangerous to cross.
- After 1905 Armenian political and military networks treated Shusha and Karabakh more broadly as evidence that armed self-defence was necessary because imperial Russian officials could not reliably protect Christian quarters during communal violence.