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Aghasi Khanjian ((アルメニア語:Աղասի Խանջյան); (ロシア語:Агаси Гевондович Ханджян), ''Agasi Gevondovich Khandzhyan'') (January 30, 1901 – July 6, 1936), was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from May 1930 to July 1936.〔Zev Katz, Rosemarie Rogers, Frederic Harned. ''Handbook of Major Soviet Nationalities'', p. 146-7. ISBN 0-02-917090-7〕 == Biography == Khanjian was born in the city of Van, Ottoman Empire (today eastern Turkey). With the onslaught of the Armenian Genocide, his family emigrated from the city in 1915 and settled in Russian Armenia.〔〔 (Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Aghasi Khanjian )〕 In 1917-19, he was one of the organizers of Spartak, the Marxist student's union of Armenia. He later served as the secretary of the Armenian Bolshevik underground committee.〔 In 1920, Khanjian became secretary of the Yerevan city committee and in 1930, the first secretary of the Armenian Communist Party.〔 He proved to be a charismatic Soviet politician and was very popular among the Armenian populace.〔 He was a friend and supporter of many Armenian intellectuals, including Yeghishe Charents (who dedicated a poem to him), Axel Bakunts and Gurgen Mahari.〔 Khanjian also tried unsuccessfully to have Moscow reunite Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.〔(Armenian History: History of Artsakh, Part 2 ), Yuri Babayan〕 He was arrested in 1936 and died while being interrogated.〔(Khronos biography ).〕 Richard G. Hovannisian describes the circumstances of his death as follows:
Along with an entire generation of intellectual Armenian communist leaders (such as Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan), Khanjian was denounced as an enemy of the people during the Great Purge.〔〔Cornell, Svante E. “The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict.” Report no. 46, Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University, 1999.〕 Khanjian was officially rehabilitated after the death of Joseph Stalin. thumbnail 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aghasi Khanjian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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