Secure Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians And The Connected Revolutions In The Russian, Iranian, And Ottoman Worlds By Houri Berberian Rendered As Manuscript

makes the case that Armenians played a key part in the Ottoman, Iranian, and Russian revolutions in the first decade of the twentieth century, and she also argues convincingly that we should look at the interplay of constitutionalism, federalism, and socialism rather than simply calling it “Armenian nationalism” and leaving it at that.
Yet the book leaves many questions unaddressed, Yes, revolutionaries, arms, and printed material circulated among the three empires, but what were the major events in which the former two were involved How did the revolutionaries share not only political ideas but tactical approaches, such as instigating protests, strikes, etc.
Finally, the book gives no real sense of the personalities of the revolutionaries themselves or the conditions against which they were rebelling, making this a rather colorless history despite its innovative approach.
Interesting material and potentially productive theoretical framework, Yet on the whole, whilst new facts emerge, the picture isn't complete, There's plenty of discussion of how "our revolutionaries" sic were smuggling arms and fighters across borders but somehow what was done with these weapons by these fighters is not very clear in most cases.
Did the ARF whose archives are the primary source have any role in e, g. communal bloodletting known as the ArmenoTatar War There is plenty of discussion of intellectual influences that Armenian revolutionaries received from Europe and Russia, but their own intellectual impact on the Russian, Ottoman and Iranian revolutionary processes isn't very salient in the text.
Very minor point, but on two occasions Russian patronymics are confused with names, Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentiethcentury world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other, Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded betweenand, 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 revolutionariesminorities in all of these empireswhose 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 Berberians 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.
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