AGBU Video's video: Richard Hovannisian: Armenia After World War I

www.agbuwebtalks.org Dr. Richard Hovannisian considers the geopolitical environment and major historical events that shaped Armenia in the aftermath of World War I – from the unfulfilled promise of the Treaty of Sevres to seventy years of Soviet rule that followed the dissolution of Armenia’s first independent republic. Dr. Richard Hovannisian is Professor Emeritus of History and First Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA, the author or contributing editor of 32 books, including five volumes on the first Republic of Armenia and five volumes on the Armenian Genocide, together with some 80 scholarly articles. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the initiator and six-time president of the Society for Armenian Studies, established in 1974, and has lectured worldwide on topics relating to Armenian and Near Eastern history and cultures.