|
Hunchak Party
The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) ( hy, Սոցիալ Դեմոկրատ Հնչակյան Կուսակցություն; ՍԴՀԿ, translit=Sots’ial Demokrat Hnch’akyan Kusakts’ut’yun), is the oldest continuously-operating Armenian political party, founded in 1887 by a group of students in Geneva, Switzerland. It was the first socialist party to operate in the Ottoman Empire and in Iran, then known as Persia. Among its founders were Avetis Nazarbekian, Mariam Vardanian, Gevorg Gharadjian, Ruben Khan-Azat, Christopher Ohanian, Gabriel Kafian and Manuel Manuelian. Its original goal was attaining Armenia's independence from the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian national liberation movement. The party is also known as Hentchak, Henchak, Social-Democratic Hentchaks, Huntchakians, Hnchakian, Henchags, and its name is taken from its newspaper ''Hunchak (journal), Hunchak,'' meaning "clarion" or "bell". This is taken by party members to represent "a call or awakening, for e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avetis Nazarbekian
Avetis Vardan Nazarbekian ( hy, Ավետիս Վարդանի Նազարբեկյան, 1866, Tabriz – 1939, Moscow), also known as ''Nazarbek'' or ''Lerents'', was an Armenian people, Armenian poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary, one of the founders of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party. Biography Nazarbekian was born in Tabriz, Qajar Iran, but had lived in Imperial Russia since his childhood. He studied at the St. Petersburg and Paris (Sorbonne) Universities. In the mid-1880s he contributed to the Mkrtich Portukalian's ''Armenia'' revolutionary journal, also established close contacts with Russian socialist Georgi Plekhanov and Emancipation of Labour group. In 1887 Nazarbek, his future wife Mariam Vardanian and their Russian-Armenian friends founded the Hunchakian party and ''Hunchak'' newspaper. Nazarbek translated several works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Plekhanov. He talked to Lenin and Stepan Shaumian, Shahumyan about the Armenian question. In 1923 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
