Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918

Richard G. Hovannisian's classic scholarly study of Armenia's path to independence in 1918.

Published by the University of California Press in 1967, this English-language monograph examines the collapse of Transcaucasia and the formation of the Republic of Armenia in 1918. Because it covers events concurrent with the declaration of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the Ottoman advance and the struggle for Baku, it offers an essential comparative perspective on the period of the Army of Islam from the Armenian side. It is included as a standard scholarly reference for the political context of the South Caucasus in 1918.