The league of nations and the reclamation of Armenian genocide survivors

Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Confronting the Armenian Genocide

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 81-112

  Shemmassian, Vahram L ^a  

^a Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203786994-5     Document Type: Chapter

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