Ashot Hovhannisian

Ashot Hovhannisian
Աշոտ Հովհաննիսյան
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia
In office
January 1922 – July 1927
Preceded byAskanaz Mravyan
Succeeded byHayk Ovsepyan
1st Minister of Education of Soviet Armenia
In office
December 1920 – 1921
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byPoghos Makintsian
Personal details
Born(1887-06-17)June 17, 1887
Shusha, Shusha uezd, Elizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedJune 30, 1972(1972-06-30) (aged 85)
Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
NationalityArmenian
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1906–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)
Alma materUniversity of Munich
OccupationScholar, revolutionary, official

Ashot Garegini Hovhannisian (Armenian: Աշոտ Գարգինի Հովհաննիսյան; Russian: Ашот Гарегинович Иоаннисян, Ashot Gareginovich Ioannisyan; June 17, 1887 – June 30, 1972) was an Armenian Marxist historian,[1][2] theorist[3] and Communist official.

  1. ^ Voskanian, Ashot (2016). "On Two Factors of National Identity: Orientation and Social Structure of Society". Wisdom. 7 (2). International Research Institute for Metaphilosophy, Transformational Logic and Theory of Argumentation at Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University: 111–116. doi:10.24234/wisdom.v2i7.143. ISSN 1829-3824. As a Marxist-historian he underlined the common social struggle of the Armenians and other exploited neighboring nations...
  2. ^ Azatyan, Vardan (2015). "More Alive than the Living: The Historical Time of the Revolution" (PDF). American University of Beirut. p. 32. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-30. I discuss the theory of history, as developed by Armenian Marxist historian Ashot Johannissyan in the first part of the twentieth century...
  3. ^ Problems of the Peoples of the USSR. League for the Liberation of the Peoples of the USSR, 1961, Issues 8-16, p. 37 "He was also accompanied by his adviser, the well-known Armenian Communist historian and Marxist theorist Ashot Ovanesyan..."