Yeghishe Charents

Yeghishe Charents
Եղիշե Չարենց
BornYeghishe Soghomonyan
(1897-03-13)March 13, 1897
Kars, Kars Oblast, Russian Empire
DiedNovember 27, 1937(1937-11-27) (aged 40)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Resting placeunknown
OccupationPoet, writer, translator, public activist
LanguageArmenian
NationalityArmenian
SpouseIzabella Charents
ChildrenAnahit Charents and Arpenik Charents

Yeghishe Charents (Armenian: Եղիշե Չարենց, romanizedYeghishe Ch’arents’; March 13[25], 1897 – November 27, 1937) was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents' literary subject matter ranged from his experiences in the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and frequently Armenia and Armenians.[1] He is recognized as "the main poet of the 20th century" in Armenia.[2]

An early proponent of communism and the USSR, the futurist Charents joined the Bolshevik Party and became an active supporter of Soviet Armenia, especially during the period of Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP). However, he became disillusioned with direction of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. He was arrested by the NKVD during the 1930s Great Purge, and was killed or died in 1937. However, after Stalin's death, he was exonerated in a 1954 speech by Anastas Mikoyan and was officially rehabilitated by the Soviet state in 1955 during the Khrushchev Thaw.[3][4]

  1. ^ (in Armenian) Aghababyan, S. «Չարենց, Եղիշե Աբգարի» (Charents, Yeghishe Abgari). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. viii. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1982, pp. 670-672.
  2. ^ Coene, Frederik (2010). The Caucasus: an introduction. London: Routledge. p. 204. ISBN 9780415486606.
  3. ^ Shakarian, Pietro A. (12 November 2021). "Yerevan 1954: Anastas Mikoyan and Nationality Reform in the Thaw, 1954–1964". Peripheral Histories. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  4. ^ Beledian, Krikor (2014). "Kara-Darvish and Armenian Futurism". International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. 4: 263–300. doi:10.1515/futur-2014-0025. ISBN 978-3-11-033400-5.

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