18.11.2025


The internationally renowned publishing house I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury (London/New York) announces the publication of the monograph "Commemorating the Armenian Genocide" by Harutyun Marutyan, Head of Department at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the NAS RA, and Doctor of Historical Sciences (Introduction by Corresponding Member of NAS RA Levon Abrahamian).

The book covers the first public commemorations of the Great Crime (Mets Yeghern) in Constantinople in 1919, the restrictions on the topic of the Armenian Genocide and their overcoming during the Soviet period, the role of the Diaspora, as well as the traditions formed around the Armenian Genocide Memorial complex. The author pays special attention to the historical and political development of the slogan "I Remember and Demand."

The author has dedicated the monograph to the bright memory of the heroes of the 1915 Van self-defense. The book is intended for historians, cultural studies scholars, and a wide circle of readers.

The work was published in the "Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World" series of Armenian studies publications, the editor-in-chief of which is Bedross Der Matossian, Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA). The publication of the monograph has been covered by the US-based periodicals Armenian Weekly and Asbarez.

https://armenianweekly.com/2025/11/17/new-book-by-harutyun-marutyan-explores-a-century-of-armenian-genocide-commemoration/
https://asbarez.com/harutyun-marutyans-book-on-commemorating-the-armenian-genocide-published/