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<p>This article examines how Yeghishe Charents mediated early Soviet proletarian internationalism through Armenian literary and cultural forms during the 1920s and 1930s. Situating Charents within the broader framework of Soviet nationality policy and literary internationalism, it explores how his works negotiated the relationship between socialist universalism and Armenian historical memory in the aftermath of genocide and Sovietization. Through historical-literary analysis of texts including <i>Caucasus Spectacle</i>, <i>Lenin and Ali</i>, <i>Communist Almanac</i>, and <i>Testament</i>, the article demonstrates how Charents employed translation, symbolic figures, and innovative poetic structures to articulate cross-ethnic solidarity while preserving Armenian specificity. It further argues that the increasing tensions between multinational accommodation and political centralization became visible in both Charents’ literary trajectory and his late works, revealing the challenges of sustaining internationalist ideals within a rapidly changing Soviet political environment.</p>

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Yeghishe Charents and the echoes of internationalism: the promise and peril in early Soviet Armenia

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    2026年7月7日

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  • Artur Ishkhanyan,
  • Hermine Ohanyan

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This article examines how Yeghishe Charents mediated early Soviet proletarian internationalism through Armenian literary and cultural forms during the 1920s and 1930s. Situating Charents within the broader framework of Soviet nationality policy and literary internationalism, it explores how his works negotiated the relationship between socialist universalism and Armenian historical memory in the aftermath of genocide and Sovietization. Through historical-literary analysis of texts including Caucasus Spectacle, Lenin and Ali, Communist Almanac, and Testament, the article demonstrates how Charents employed translation, symbolic figures, and innovative poetic structures to articulate cross-ethnic solidarity while preserving Armenian specificity. It further argues that the increasing tensions between multinational accommodation and political centralization became visible in both Charents’ literary trajectory and his late works, revealing the challenges of sustaining internationalist ideals within a rapidly changing Soviet political environment.