Beirut’s national publishing house “Vage Setyan” has published a monographic work by historian Garo Hovhannisyan, dedicated to one of the major figures of the ARF in the second half of the 20th century, a member of the ARF Bureau, a national public and political figure of the diaspora, editor-in-chief of the periodicals “Yusaber”, “Azdak”, “Azdak Shabatoryak-Droshak”, to the ideologist and publicist of the ARF, a critical history of the life and fruitful work of Sargis Zeitlian (1930-1985), the son and descendant of a brave Musaler resistance fighter. This is Volume A of the author’s planned work, covering the period of his life and work up to 1966. As a continuation of this: the author has conceived of preparing Volume B of this work, dedicated to the life and work of S. Zeitlian, which will present a comprehensive panorama his political, journalistic, party-organizational activities from 1966 until his death (1985) (Oganesyan, 2025, 11).
In this review, we have presented not only the approaches, analyses and assessments of K. Oganesyan regarding the life and multifaceted activities of S.Zeitlyan, but also, as necessary, have tried to give our own observations and explanations on many issues raised in the editorial and journalistic materials of the ideologist and activist of the ARF. S. Zeitlian expanded the framework of the Armenian Question (Hay Dat) at the programmatic level, including by implementing the idea of restoring the free, independent statehood of the Armenian people. At one time, he can be considered one of the founders of the Armenian national ideology in the diaspora under the new conditions.
The monograph presented to the readers is the first of its kind dedicated to the life and work of the great patriot and ideologist S. Zeitlyan. Unfortunately, he lived a relatively short life – only 55 years. The thread of his life was broken at the very height of his intellectual productivity and public engagement, by malicious kidnapping and vile murder, which has not yet been clearly and thoroughly solved. It can be assumed that this work is specially dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the martyr of the great intellectual and Diaspora figure, as a sign of his bright and immortal memory. We also believe that this volume is called upon to strengthen the intellectual, socio-political and spiritual ties between the Diaspora and
Armenia.