May Uprising: Difference between revisions

The revolt remains a somewhat controversial topic even in post-Soviet Armenia. According to a study of Armenian school textbooks "the tone of the account remains fairly restrained and neutral, a certain interpretation of the events is not imposed on the students." The use of the term "uprising" in these textbooks, however&mdash;as opposed to "rebellion", as with contemporary instances of Muslim unrest&mdash;betrays a slight sympathy towards the Bolsheviks.<ref name="edumeres">{{cite web|title='We are a small nation, but': The image of the self, the image of the other, and the image of the enemy in school text books about Armenia.|url=http://www.edumeres.net/uploads/tx_empubdos/Zolyan_Zakaryan_Armenien.pdf|publisher=Eckert.Beiträge|access-date=9 August 2013|author1=Zolyan, Mikayel|author2=Zakaryan, Tigran|page=8|year=2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201958/http://www.edumeres.net/uploads/tx_empubdos/Zolyan_Zakaryan_Armenien.pdf|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

 

{{cquote|Some of the Dashnak leaders retrospectively confessed that had they handed the power to the Bolsheviks in May, 1920, Armenia would have not lost the regions of [[Kars]], [[Ardahan]], [[Surmalinsky Uyezd|Surmalu]] and [[Nakhchivansky Uyezd|Nakhichevan]], and in that case the solution of the Karabagh issue could have also been different. Yet, instead of doing that, they remorselessly slaughtered the leaders of the May Uprising and threw hundreds of the participant in prisons, unwisely triggering Russia's wrath and hostility, to put things mildly, and imposing a bitter price for it on our homeland.}}