Contents
Contributors , ix
Preface , xiii
Norman M. Naimark
Acknowledgments , xxi
Introduction: Leaving It to the Historians
, 3
Ronald Grigor Suny and Fatma Muge Gocek
PART
I : HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF THE GENOCIDE
1
Writing Genocide: The
Fate of the Ottoman Armenians , 15
Ronald Grigor Suny
2
Reading Genocide:
Turkish Historiography on 1915 , 42
Fatma Muge Gocek
PART
II : ON THE EVE OF CATASTROPHE
3
The Silence of the
Land: Agrarian Relations, Ethnicity,
and Power , 55
Stephan H. Astourian
4
What Was
Revolutionary about Armenian Revolutionary Parties
in the Ottoman Empire? 82
Gerard J. Libaridian
5
Non-Muslims in the
Ottoman Army and the Ottoman Defeat in the
Balkan War of 1912–1913 , 113
Fikret Adanır
6
From “Patriotism” to
Mass Murder:
Dr. Mehmed Reşid (1873–1919) , 126
Hans-Lukas Kieser
The
Politics and Practice of the Russian Occupation of Armenia,
1915–February 1917 ,
151
Peter
Holquist
8 Germany
and the Young Turks: Revolutionaries into Statesmen , 175
Eric
D. Weitz
9 Who Still
Talked about the Extermination of the Armenians?
German
Talk and German Silences , 199
Margaret
Lavinia Anderson
PART IV : GENOCIDE IN LOCAL CONTEXT
10 Zeytun and
the Commencement of the Armenian Genocide , 221
Aram
Arkun
11 The
Ottoman Treatment of the Assyrians , 244
David
Gaunt
12 The First
World War and the Development of the Armenian
Genocide ,
260
Donald
Bloxham
13 Pouring a
People into the Desert: The “Defi nitive Solution” of the
Unionists
to the Armenian Question , 276
Fuat
Dundar
PART V : CONTINUITIES
14 “Turkey
for the Turks”: Demographic Engineering in Eastern
Anatolia, 1914–1945 ,
287
Uğur
Umit Ungor
15 Renewal
and Silence: Postwar Unionist and Kemalist Rhetoric on
the
Armenian Genocide , 306
Erik
Jan Zurcher
Notes
, 317
Index , 415