Education
Princeton University. University of California, Berkeley.
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Mark Saroyan
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Saroyan received his Bachelor of Arts in history from Princeton University. He later began studying Soviet politics at University of California Berkeley in 1986. In 1990 he became one of the first doctorate students of Berkeley"s Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies program
After his graduation, Saroyan was hired as an assistant professor of political science at Harvard.
At the same time he was diagnosed with a fatal illness. Though he took his position at Harvard, due to his worsening state Saroyan returned to Berkeley in 1993.
He died on July 21, 1994 at the age of 34. At a time when the field was focused on elite-politics within Russia proper, Saroyan emphasized anthropological approaches among the other Soviet republics.
Besides religious issues, Saroyan examined ethnic issues in the former Soviet Union, especially Armenia–Azerbaijan relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Saroyan was additionally involved in policy discussions, participating in conferences in the United States, Europe, Turkey, and Iran. A skilled linguist, he spoke Armenian, Azeri, French, German, Persian, Russian, Turkish, and Uzbekistan in.
Politics
Nationalism and Social Change.
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Soviet Union -
Religion
Islam