3371) Book Review: Shattering Empires :The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918

by Michael A. ReynoldsNew York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 324 pp. $90 ($31.99, paper)Reviewed by Yücel GüçlüKavaklıdere/AnkaraShattering Empires traces the course of foreign relations between the Ottoman and Russian empires from the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to the end of World War I. Reynolds of Princeton University examines Russia's policies toward eastern Anatolia and highlights the way interstate competition shaped local identities...

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3370) Book Review : Crime of Numbers: Role of Statistics in the Armenian Question (1878-1918), Fuat Dündar

Reviewed by Yücel Güçlü, independent scholarTransactions Publishers, 2010. xiv + 238 pages, with tables, figures, appendices, bibliography, index. $49.95, hardcover.Crime of Numbers is a continuation of Fuat Dündar's postgraduate research. It is a controversial and provocative venture whose overarching thesis is that "during the First World War, in order to find land for homeless refugees from the Balkans, the Ottoman government evacuated certain...

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3369) Book Review: Armenian History and the Question of Genocide by Michael M. Gunter

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 195 pages. $85.00, hardcoverReviewed by Jeremy Salt, Associate professor, Bilkent University, AnkaraAnyone writing a book on the Armenian Question obviously likes a challenge, is naïve, or has not done it before and therefore does not know what to expect. Assuredly, Michael Gunter does know what to expect. Even with the best of intentions, however, books on this subject are doomed never to satisfy everyone. If the author...

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3368) Interview With François Georgeon: Revelation A Shameless Manipulation From Hachette

Interview With François Georgeon: Revelation A Shameless Manipulation From Hachette The overlap of two realities: the martyrdom of muhacir and massacres of Armenians in Anatolia "Armenian genocide" thesis about the contradictory presence Interview with Fuat Dündar, History, No. 341, April 2009 Interview with Fuat Dundar: Comments By Sukru Server Aya, 14 September 2012 These days, following private discussions about the two pages dealing with the...

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