The Eurasian Triangle. Russia, the Caucasus and Japan, 1904-1945

94 Ë War, Independence, and Reconquest, 1914–21 Catherine the Great of Russia and King Erekle II of Georgia, which proved to be ...

Reconquest Ë 95 Fig. 4.6.The cabinet of the Azerbaijan Republic, Baku, 1920. Seated in the center is Nasib Yusieyli (Ussubekov) ...

96 Ë War, Independence, and Reconquest, 1914–21 The Georgian-Russian treaty of May 1920 took place within this context of Moscow ...

Reconquest Ë 97 the Dashnaktsutiun-controlled Armenian government, and made it into a soviet.¹⁰² Several Bolsheviks from the Cau ...

98 Ë War, Independence, and Reconquest, 1914–21 preparations against the Georgian government in late 1920. At the Eighth All-Rus ...

Reconquest Ë 99 In conquering Georgia, Moscow regarded Turkey’s cooperation as necessary for success and coordinated its own mil ...

100 Ë War, Independence, and Reconquest, 1914–21 crowd would not let him speak. Instead he stood at the meeting accused of treas ...

The Caucasus and the World Ë 101 Fig. 4.7.The Caucasus after the Treaty of Kars, 1921. any case, would discredit the Bolsheviks ...

102 Ë War, Independence, and Reconquest, 1914–21 in January 1921, Lenin still hoped to create a Soviet republic in Khorasan, Per ...

The Caucasus and Japan Ë 103 watch on the Caucasian situation mainly from Istanbul, sometimes seeking intelli- gence from the Br ...

104 Ë War, Independence, and Reconquest, 1914–21 soil, were the largest of all the countries militarily involved except for Russ ...

The Caucasus and Japan Ë 105 ety of Georgians communicated through Melkhisedek Menabde, a merchant. Gelovani stated to Soviet au ...

5 Renewal Among the signicant consequences of World War I is that Japan now grew into an international power. Its victory in th ...

“Pacication” Ë 107 5.1 “Pacication” In 1922 the three Southern Caucasian Soviet Republics were merged into one and then incorp ...

108 Ë Renewal To “pacify” the region, Moscow took various measures, including forcibly reset- tling and deporting people and dis ...

“Pacication” Ë 109 coordinating resistance with the Azeris, had already been arrested in February. Conse- quently their plans f ...

110 Ë Renewal The mass executions of rebels disquieted Moscow, which, concerned about inter- national repercussions, prohibited ...

“Pacication” Ë 111 the Caucasus as a whole, regarded as an unruly region of long-standing deance, con- tinued to plague Moscow ...

112 Ë Renewal litical situation in Chechnia was such that its party secretary declared that the So- viet government had been rep ...

International Realignments Ë 113 into Iranian territory to liquidate military detachments of émigré Azeris.³¹(Techni- cally spea ...