EVENT INFORMATION

20
September
1918

Baku Commune leaders executed after British intervention

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📅 20 September 1918 📍 Azerbeidzjan

Twenty-six Baku Commune leaders were executed near Krasnovodsk after the fall of the commune and their transfer into the custody of forces associated with the Transcaspian Government and British intervention. The episode illustrates how local revolutionary movements in the oil-rich Caucasus were shaped by imperial competition, local politics and armed intervention.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Stepan Shaumian

26 Baku commissars

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Baku Commune

Transcaspian Government

British forces