February Uprising

For the skirmishes between right-wing and left-wing forces between in February 1934, in Austria sometimes called February Uprising, see Austrian Civil War.
February Uprising
Part of Sovietization of Armenia and Southern Front of the Russian Civil War

Headline in The New York Times from March 17, 1921
DateFebruary – April 1921
Location
Armenia
Result

Uprising quelled

Belligerents
Dashnaktsutiun
Mountainous Armenia		  Soviet Union
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Revolutionary committee of Armenia

Supported by:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan
Commanders and leaders
Simon Vratsian
Garegin Njdeh
Suren Tarkhanan		 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Anatoliy Gekker
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Sarkis Kasyan
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Avis Nurijanyan
Units involved
Salvation Committee of the Fatherland 11th Red Army
Strength
~10,000 (April)[1] Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown 200 (in mid-April, Soviet claim)[2]

The February Uprising (Armenian: Փետրվարյան ապստամբություն, romanized: P’etrvaryan apstambut’yun)[a] was an anti-Bolshevik rebellion by the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation which started on February 13 and was suppressed on April 2, 1921, by the recapture of Yerevan by Bolshevik forces.

  1. ^ Hakobyan, Tatul (2 April 2015). "Ապրիլ 2, 1921թ. տխուր օր, որ չենք հիշում". ANI Armenian Research Center (in Armenian). Archived from the original on 5 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b Hakobian, A (1986). "Փետրվարյան խռովություն 1921". Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia Volume 12 (in Armenian). p. 334.


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