Suny shows that while the limits of Armenia at times excluded the diaspora, now, at a time of state renewal, the boundaries have been expanded to include Armenians who live beyond the borders of the republic.

Preface
Introduction: From National Character to National Tradition
Part One
Imagining Armenia
1 Armenia and Its Rulers
2 Images of the Armenians in the Russian Empire
3 The Emergence of the Armenian Patriotic Intelligentsia in Russia
4 Populism, Nationalism, and Marxism amoung Russia's Armenians
5 Labor and Socialism amoung Armenians in Transcaucasia
6 Rethinking the Unthinkable: Toward an Understanding of the Armenian Genocide
Part Two
State, Nation, Diaspora
7 Armenia and the Russian Revolution
8 Building a Socialist Nation
9 Stalin and the Armenians
10 Return to Ararat: Armenia in the Cold War
11 The New Nationalism in Armenia
12 Nationalism and Democracy: The Case of Karabagh
13 Looking toward Ararat: The Diaspora and the "Homeland"
14 Armenia on the Road to Independence, Again
Notes
Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages on Modern Armenian History
Index