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Originally published in 1970, this book is the result of many years of study and research in the field. It begins with a geographic and ethnic survey of the land and Armenian people and traces the land's prehistory back to the Old Stone Age. The origins of the wine-making and bronze-working industries are discussed, in which Armenia played a pioneering role. The outstanding Armenian contribution to Church art and architecture is also explored as is the contribution of Armenia to painting, philosophy, and science. The final section is devoted to an account of Soviet Armenia.

When this was originally published in 1959 it was the first full-length biography of Alexander Radishchev published outside Russia and was based on hitherto unpublished material, memoir literature and Radishchev's own writings. Radishchev occupies a notable position in the history of European social thought, as the first writer to apply the criteria of the Western Age of Reason to conditions in Tsarist Russia. Sentenced to death on the orders of Catherine the Great and subsequently exiled in Siberia, Radishchev stands out as the first great figure of the Russian radical intelligentsia and the first literary victim of Tsarist official intolerance.

1. The Armenian Holocaust 2. False Hopes 3. Abomination of Desolation 4. Land and People: Historical Introduction 5. Between Byzantium and Islam 6. The Crusades and Links with France 7. Towards the Orient: 1 -- Palestine, Persia, Central Asia and Beyond 8. Towards the Orient: 2 -- Armenians in India and South-East Asia 9. Eastern Europe and the Russian Connection 10. Armenians in the New World 11. Armenian Cooking 12. As Others See Us: The Armenian Image in Literature 13. The Armenians and the Occult 14. Armenians and the Arts World-wide.