Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan

Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
Part of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War and the Russian Civil War

Red Army in Baku, May 1920
Date27 April – 12 May 1920
Location
Transcaucasia
Result

Soviet victory

Belligerents
 Russian SFSR
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaijani Bolsheviks		 Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Commanders and leaders
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Levandovsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Yefremov Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Anastas Mikoyan
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Gazanfar Musabekov
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Nariman Narimanov
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Chingiz Ildyrym		 Mammad H. Hajinski
Samad Mehmandarov
Abdulhamid Gaytabashi
Aliagha Shikhlinski

The Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan, also known as the Sovietization or Soviet invasion of Azerbaijan, took place in April 1920. It was a military campaign conducted by the 11th Army of Soviet Russia with the aim of installing a new Soviet government in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.[1][2][3] This invasion occurred simultaneously with an anti-government insurrection organized by local Azerbaijani Bolsheviks in the capital city of Baku. As a result of the invasion, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was dissolved, and the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was established.[4][5]

  1. ^ Altstadt 1992, p. 108.
  2. ^ "Azerbaijan". International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
  3. ^ "Russian Civil War". Encyclopædia Britannica. 29 May 2024.
  4. ^ Cornell 2011, p. 31.
  5. ^ "Republic of Azerbaijan, pre-USSR (1918-1920)". Dead Country Stamps and Banknotes. 22 September 2012.