the Turkish nation with 1919, removing in the process the demise of the Armenians in 1915 through state violence to the realm of Republican prehistory." Historian Marc David Baer wrote: British Historian Perry Anderson states that, "The speech he gave in 1927 that became the official creed of the nation dwarfed any address by Khrushchev or Castro. Extolling his own achievements, it went on for 36 hours, delivered over six days, eventually composing a tome of 600 pages: a record in the annals of autocracy." References Further reading External links Complete text in Ottoman Turkish Complete text in modern Turkish Ataturk Research Center, Ankara, Turkey Atatürk Society of Canada translation Speeches by heads of state Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1927 in Turkey Grand National Assembly of Turkey 1927 speeches