"A Question of Genocide" book and contents

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