Haze over Ararat: The Role of Environmentalism in the Rise of National and Civic Movements in Soviet and Post-Soviet Armenia, 1975–Present

Armenian Forum On-Line. 2013.

Shakarian P. A.

The environmental movement in Soviet Armenia served as a catalyst for the rise of the Armenian national movement during glasnost. Despite extensive studies of the collapse of Soviet power in Armenia, little research has looked at this movement as a major factor in Armenian civic and national expression.

Keywords: Армения, Закавказье, перестройка, история СССР, Caucasus, Armenia, экологизм, Нагорный Карабах, History of Soviet Union, environmentalism, Nagorno-Karabakh, перестройка в СССР, History of Perestroika, History of Russian Empire and the Soviet Union