July 26 Baku Coup d'état

The July 26 Baku Coup d'état, also known as the 1918 Baku Coup d'état, was an Anti-communist coup d'état, carried out by Azerbaijani-Armenian forces in Baku.[2]

1918 Baku Coup d'état
Part of the Battle of Baku

Map of the Centrocaspian Dictatorship
Date26 July 1918[1]
Location
Baku, Baku Governorate, Baku Commune
Result

Centrocaspian victory

Belligerents
Baku Commune Centrocaspian Dictatorship
Supported by:
British Empire
Dashnaks
Ashkhabad Committee
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Commanders and leaders
Stepan Shaumian Executed
Yakov Zevin Executed[lower-alpha 1]		 Jaques Bagratuni
Fyodor Funtikov
Lionel Dunsterville
Strength
unknown unknown

Coup

On the 26 July, Stepan Shaumian and his Party was outvoted 259-236 and many of his old supportes left him. After the votes, Shaumian announced that he and his Party will leave Baku.[3] After this, the 26 Baku Commissars tried to escape to Astrakhan, but the Caspian fleet, which was allied with the newborn Centrocaspian Dictatorship, stopped and imprisoned them.[4]

Aftermath

On the 20th of September the 26 Baku Commissars were executed by a firing squad in Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan.[5]

See also

References
  1. Missen, Leslie (1984). Dunsterforce. Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War I. Marshall Cavendish Corporation.
  2. Knight, Paul (2013-07-30). The British Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9304-3.
  3. Hopkirk, Peter. On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire, Oxford University Press, 2001; ISBN 0-19-280230-5, pp 304–5, 322
  4. Burg, David F.; Purcell, L. Edward (2004-03-05). Almanac of World War I. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3771-1.
  5. C. Dobson & J. Miller The Day We Almost Bombed Moscow Hodder and Stoughton, 1986. pp 94–5

Notes
  1. Both Shaumian and Zevin were executed on the 20th September in nowday Turkmenistan
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