Les Arméniens communistes en France, une histoire oubliée
If the name Manouchian, immortalized by the “L’Affiche rouge” (“The Red Poster”), echoes well beyond the Armenian community, few amongst Armenians themselves actually know Manouchian’s story, or that of his comrades, in interwar France. The fact that a part of the Armenian “colony” in France partici...
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| Language: | English |
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TELEMME - UMR 6570
2007-09-01
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| Series: | Amnis |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/amnis/853 |
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| Summary: | If the name Manouchian, immortalized by the “L’Affiche rouge” (“The Red Poster”), echoes well beyond the Armenian community, few amongst Armenians themselves actually know Manouchian’s story, or that of his comrades, in interwar France. The fact that a part of the Armenian “colony” in France participated in the Communist movement is often ignored. In her recent book on the Armenians of Vienne (Isère), Anahide Ter Minassian asserts that amongst the “Viennese workers […], Armenian communists where influent before, after, and during the Second World War”. However, how can one explain that none of the works concerning Armenians in France investigate this phenomenon in detail? It seems that the Armenian community is often perceived as a homogeneous group, without social or political dissent. Armenians themselves, anxious not to revive past conflicts, and to offer the powers to be a single interlocutor, have given in to this “myth of unity”. But wouldn’t one be tempted to see, in this oblivion of the role of Communists, the fate reserved to the “defeated”, those who during decades where hostile to the independence of Armenia? |
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| ISSN: | 1764-7193 |