The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century - Paperbackby Louise Nalbandian (Author) This is the first comprehensive work in English dealing with the nineteenth century Armenian revolutionary movement and the subsequent rise of Armenian political parties. It covers in details the history of the Armenian revolutionists' armed struggle against the government of the Ottoman Turks beginning with the first major uprising in 1862 and extending to the culmination of the Turkish Armenian massacres in 1896.