title: Markar Melkonian
text: # Markar Melkonian
  
  Markar Melkonian is an Armenian-American writer, lecturer, and solidarity worker.
  
  Melkonian's book My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia, details the life of his brother, Monte Melkonian, and his role in the struggle for Armenian independence in the 1990s. My Brother's Road was published by I.B. Tauris in 2005 (revised paperback 2008). Translations in Italian, Armenian, Russian, and French are forthcoming. He recently wrote the book 'The Wrong Train: Notes on Armenia since the Counterrevolution' which is an outstanding guide to the English language that offers crucial contextual analysis of the challenges that have been plaguing Armenia as it shifts from a post-Soviet economy to a fiercely capitalist one, which inevitably brings about its own set of difficulties.
  
  ## Books
  
  Markar Melkonian's books include
  
  * Melkonian, Markar (1996). Marxism: A Post-Cold War Primer. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0756763718.
  * Melkonian, Markar (1999). Richard Rorty's Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books. ISBN 9781573927253. OCLC 41649687.
  * Melkonian, Markar (2005). My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia. Gpranyan-Melkʻonyan, Seda. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781850436355. OCLC 56805609.
  * Melkonian, Markar (2020). The Wrong Train: Notes on Armenia since the Counterrevolution. I.B. Tauris.
  