Leo Torosian

On May 28 2026, an authentic Armenian revolutionary flag was gifted to one of Argentina’s Armenian Community Centers, Córdoba’s Club Antranik, on the occasion of the 108th anniversary of the independence of the First Republic of Armenia. A photograph of this same flag appears in black and white in the Spanish-language book 100 Years of History — The Armenians of Córdoba published by Levon Kilic-Aslan. The photograph, taken in 1965, shows four men and a child proudly holding a flag. The source...

German-American philosopher Herbert Marcuse argued that advanced industrial societies neutralize radical opposition by absorbing it into the commodity system. Dissent becomes a product, rebellion becomes a lifestyle to be marketed and sold, and thus, the revolutionary charge is defused. This article attempts to address the paradox of small-scale revolutionary-flag manufacturing within a commodity system that disarms revolutionary dissent. In One-Dimensional Man, Marcuse argues that liberal...

YEREVAN—Vexillologist Leo Torosian and producer and creator of the Uncovering Roots podcast, Maxim Saakyan, recently gained rare access to the archives of the ARF History Museum in Yerevan, uncovering revolutionary flags never before seen by the public. Guided by museum staff member Aghvan Papyan, the pair...