Voices from the Past

Description

The enclosed biographies and writings—whether from statesmen, intellectuals, military commanders, or rank-and-file fedayis—reflect the arch of Armenian history from the 1890s to the 1940s. They contain not merely points of view but larger ideas, ideologies, worldviews, and hard-won life-lessons that energized and guided the lives of individual Dashnaktsakans, the collective outlook of Dashnaktsoutiun, as well as the political movement the party engendered. They also contain lessons and insights that those who would involve themselves in the affairs of today's Armenia and the Diaspora would do well to consider. For the past has much to teach those seeking to build the future.