La revue HOG : pour une nouvelle ère socialiste en Arménie et en diaspora

Abstract

The HOG journal was published in Armenian in Paris from 1933 to 1935 by Communist organization of the same name: the “HOG” or Aid to Armenia Committee. With direct links to the Soviet authorities in Armenia, the review relayed their ideology to the diaspora, extolling the virtues of building a Soviet Armenia. Putting into perspective the historical context in which the magazine operated in Paris, this article aims to present its modus operandi and its influence strategy within the Armenian diaspora. It shows that the HOG journal’s propagandistic methods aimed to increase its readership’s awareness of internationalist concepts and spread the idea of the greatness, the invincibility and the modernity of the new Soviet society.

Keywords

• communism
• migration
• diaspora
• repatriation
• press
• propaganda