Details: This book is the first volume of a historical work titled Dilemmas Before the Judgment of History. It was authored by Simon Vratsian (1882–1969), a prominent Armenian statesman and intellectual, who used the pseudonym "Z. Gyulludagyan". The book covers the period from the 1890s to the beginning of World War I in 1914 and provides an analysis of the political and national issues facing the Armenian people during this time. The book was published posthumously in Soviet Armenia in 1982.