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1921 February Rebellion as a Manifestation of Armenian War of Independence

Stepanyan, Khachatur · 2021

Reconstructs the February 1921 uprising as the culminating episode of the Armenian struggle for independence. Stepanyan sets the scene with the 1918 declarations of independence in the South Caucasus and the Red Army's campaign to recover former imperial territory, leaving Armenia fighting Kemalist Turkey and Soviet Russia at once. Despite the August 1920 treaty with Soviet Russia, Armenian Bolsheviks backed by the Red Army proclaimed Soviet Armenia in November and began Sovietization accompanied by repression of Armenian national politicians, military leaders and intellectuals, the uprising that began in February 1921 drove the Bolsheviks out of Yerevan, but the Red Army counter-offensive in April restored Bolshevik rule.

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Eesti Sõjaajaloo Aastaraamat / Estonian Yearbook of Military History, No. 11 (2021), Tallinn University Press; ISSN 2228-0669
Year
2021
Language
English

Citation

Stepanyan, Khachatur 2021. 1921 February Rebellion as a Manifestation of Armenian War of Independence. Eesti Sõjaajaloo Aastaraamat / Estonian Yearbook of Military History, No. 11 (2021), Tallinn University Press; ISSN 2228-0669.

What this offers a reader

For students

The February Uprising treated as serious military history, in a peer-reviewed European journal.

For academics

Peer-reviewed and open access; a rare scholarly treatment of the 1921 rebellion outside Armenian-language literature.

For the community

The Committee for the Salvation of the Fatherland, and the last stand of the Republic.

For a general reader

The 1921 uprising that briefly drove the Bolsheviks out of Yerevan.

Topics

February 1921 uprisingSovietization of ArmeniaRed ArmyARF resistanceBolshevik repressionArmenian independence

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