17 սեպտեմբեր, 2020 10:12
Anastas Mikoyan, Armenia and Karabakh։ Q&A With Pietro Shakarian
Pietro Shakarian is a PhD in History candidate at the Ohio State University, currently working on a biography of the prominent Soviet official of Armenian descent Anastas Mikoyan Мikoyan was the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power from the latter days of Lenin’s rule, throughout the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, until his retirement in the first months of Brezhnev’s rule Shakarian responded to Emil Sanamyan’s questions by email Q Can Mikoyan be called the most important Armenian in the Soviet Union To what extent was he still “Armenian” after almost half a century in the Soviet leadership A Mikoyan can easily be called the most powerful Armenian in the USSR And he strongly identified with his Armenian roots right up to his passing in 1978 and was heavily involved in Soviet Armenian affairs In short, Mikoyan was effectively a “national communist” At one point, he was a Bolshevik and an internationalist, b
