Arménská genocida - Příčiny, průběh a osobní svědectví událostí z let 1915-1922 – Jandák Marek (2018)

The publication engagingly and comprehensively presents one of the darkest chapters of modern world history: the extermination of the Ottoman Armenians – aghet – by the Young Turk dictatorship. The author systematically analyzes the causes of the aghet based on thorough study of sources (including the presence of a dictatorship of a single political party, the emerging geopolitical order of nation-states, and the world war that ignited violence on an unprecedented scale), its course, and its consequences. Through contemporary documents and testimonies of survivors and witnesses from among foreigners (missionaries, ambassadors, representatives of foreign institutions...), it allows the reader to better empathize with the events that culminated in the genocide of Armenians in 1915. The author does not overlook the complex and sensitive topic of the relationship between politics and memory in attempts to recognize or deny genocide. Last but not least, the book also presents Czech reflections on the Armenian events in contemporary press and in the works of humanist and traveler Karel Hansa.