The Activities of the Indicative Organization of ARF Dashnaksutyun in the Months after the Vitosh Disaster (from March to mid-July, 1905)

Abstract

The activities of the Indicative Organization of ARF Dashnakstutyun of Constantino­ple in the months after the Vitosh disaster (1905 March to mid-July) aimed towards finali­za­tion of the organization of assassination of the Bloody Sultan Abdul Hamid II ("The Case of Nzhuyk") are comprehensively analyzed in the current publication.

A number of episodes from the activities of the Responsible-Indicative Organization of ARF Dashnakstutyun of Constantino­ple (almost left out of the historians' sight due to va­rious reasons in the past) are presented in detail based on various sources, including docu­ments from ARF Dashnakstutyun's Boston central archive published for the first time during the last decades.

Based on combined analysis of often contradicting and mutually excluding fac­tual ma­­te­rials, the current publication gives exhaustive answers to several questions which are still de­ba­table nowadays. Particularly, the current publication presents the objective and sub­­jective factors that made the Indicative Organization abandon its preliminary plan after the martyrdom of its leader Kristapor Mikayelyan and choose new tactics of striking the de­ci­sive blow during the last stages of the preparation of "The Case of Nzhuyk".

The current publication also makes important adjustments on the activities of the In­di­cative Organization of ARF Dashnakstutyun, as well as several controversial and contra­dictory issues on "The Case of Nzhuyk" for historians.