Mikayel Zolyan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6088963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikayel Zolyan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikayel |
| FAMILY NAME | Zolyan |
| SIGNATURE | ZOLYAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yerevan State Linguistic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2890-0118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ararat-73 and Caucasus derbies
This article analyzes football spectators in the Soviet Union’s national periphery, focusing on FC Ararat Yerevan’s supporters during their 1973 ‘Golden Double’ triumph. Ararat fandom transcended Yerevan to encompass all of Soviet Armenia and diaspora communities, uniting diverse social strata from workers to the head of the Armenian church. Nationwide celebrations featured massive airport crowds, folk feasts, and rituals lionizing the players. A…
The Story of “Ararat-73”
The paper deals with “national revival” in late Soviet Armenia, seen through the lens of football, focusing on the success story of FC Yerevan Ararat in the Soviet football league. This research is based on two academic currents, one dealing with “the nationalities question” in the USSR , and, the other focusing on the relationship between nationalism and sport, particularly football. Supporting Ararat in the late Soviet decades became an experie…
Three Republics of Armenia
Deciding how to relate to the Soviet past is a key question in the politics of memory for the societies and political elites of the post-Soviet countries. Throughout the post-Soviet decades Armenian political and intellectual elites tried to form a complex attitude to the Soviet past, neither rejecting, nor appropriating the Soviet legacy completely, but assimilating it within the paradigm of national history. Within this paradigm Soviet Armenia …
Between empire and independence
The period of the short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) or Transcaucasian Federation was from the Armenian perspective a traumatic one, defined by the military threat coming from the Ottomans and by the complicated relations with the other major ethnic groups of the region. The Armenian political elite and “common Armenians” were caught off-guard by the Russian revolution. The Turkish advance of the Caucasus Front was s…
Nagorny Karabakh conflict
The article explores the current stalemate in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, and perspectives for conflict transformation. As the conflict has remained dormant for more than 20 years, the political systems of the countries engaged in the conflict have adjusted to the conflict situation. The conflict is often used by the political elites in order to legitimize their power, consolidate support, marginalize opponents, and neutralize democratizing pr…
Nagorny Karabakh conflict
The article explores the current stalemate in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, and perspectives for conflict transformation. As the conflict has remained dormant for more than 20 years, the political systems of the countries engaged in the conflict have adjusted to the conflict situation. The conflict is often used by the political elites in order to legitimize their power, consolidate support, marginalize opponents, and neutralize democratizing pr…
Three Republics of Armenia
Deciding how to relate to the Soviet past is a key question in the politics of memory for the societies and political elites of the post-Soviet countries. Throughout the post-Soviet decades Armenian political and intellectual elites tried to form a complex attitude to the Soviet past, neither rejecting, nor appropriating the Soviet legacy completely, but assimilating it within the paradigm of national history. Within this paradigm Soviet Armenia …
Nagorny Karabakh conflict
The article explores the current stalemate in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, and perspectives for conflict transformation. As the conflict has remained dormant for more than 20 years, the political systems of the countries engaged in the conflict have adjusted to the conflict situation. The conflict is often used by the political elites in order to legitimize their power, consolidate support, marginalize opponents, and neutralize democratizing pr…
Between empire and independence
The period of the short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) or Transcaucasian Federation was from the Armenian perspective a traumatic one, defined by the military threat coming from the Ottomans and by the complicated relations with the other major ethnic groups of the region. The Armenian political elite and “common Armenians” were caught off-guard by the Russian revolution. The Turkish advance of the Caucasus Front was s…
Three Republics of Armenia
Deciding how to relate to the Soviet past is a key question in the politics of memory for the societies and political elites of the post-Soviet countries. Throughout the post-Soviet decades Armenian political and intellectual elites tried to form a complex attitude to the Soviet past, neither rejecting, nor appropriating the Soviet legacy completely, but assimilating it within the paradigm of national history. Within this paradigm Soviet Armenia …
The Story of “Ararat-73”
The paper deals with “national revival” in late Soviet Armenia, seen through the lens of football, focusing on the success story of FC Yerevan Ararat in the Soviet football league. This research is based on two academic currents, one dealing with “the nationalities question” in the USSR , and, the other focusing on the relationship between nationalism and sport, particularly football. Supporting Ararat in the late Soviet decades became an experie…
Ararat-73 and Caucasus derbies
This article analyzes football spectators in the Soviet Union’s national periphery, focusing on FC Ararat Yerevan’s supporters during their 1973 ‘Golden Double’ triumph. Ararat fandom transcended Yerevan to encompass all of Soviet Armenia and diaspora communities, uniting diverse social strata from workers to the head of the Armenian church. Nationwide celebrations featured massive airport crowds, folk feasts, and rituals lionizing the players. A…
Armenian (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)