......Reviewing briefly the nationalist reconceptualization of the Armenians in the nineteenth century from a primarily ethnoreligious to a secular national community, I discussed how the tiny Armenian state had become ever more ethnically homogeneous and nationally conscious during the Soviet period and raised the question, How can Armenians (or Georgians and Azerbaijanis for that matter) reconcile the idea of relatively homogeneous nation-states with the realities of Transcaucasian politics and demography, which were formed by centuries of multinational empire and migration?...
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Date: 2009-02-17 01:18 pm (UTC)......Reviewing briefly the nationalist reconceptualization of
the Armenians in the nineteenth century from a primarily ethnoreligious to a secular national community, I discussed how the tiny Armenian state had become ever more ethnically homogeneous and nationally conscious during the Soviet period and raised the question, How can Armenians (or Georgians and
Azerbaijanis for that matter) reconcile the idea of relatively homogeneous nation-states with the realities of Transcaucasian politics and demography, which were formed by centuries of multinational empire and migration?...