Sarkis Kasyan
Sarkis Kasyan | |
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Սարգիս Կասյան | |
Armenian SSR | |
In office July 1928 – December 1930 | |
Preceded by | Artashes Karinyan |
Succeeded by | Armen Ananyan |
Personal details | |
Born | 28 January 1876 Berlin University |
Occupation | Publicist, writer |
Sarkis Hovhannesi Kasyan or Kasian (Qosyan,
He was arrested and later shot in 1937 during the Great Purge. He was posthumously rehabilitated.
Biography
Sarkis Kasyan was born on January 28, 1876, in the town of
Kasyan left for Germany in 1900 and graduated from
He was one of the founders of Armenian Bolshevik press in 1905, and worked at a number of Bolshevik newspapers based in Tiflis (Tbilisi) and Baku. He headed the Tiflis communist party organization from 1912 to 1914. From 1914 to 1917 he was in exile in Astrakhan and Vologda. From 1919 to 1920 he was chairman of the Armenian committee of the Russian Communist (Bolshevik) Party.
Kasyan was one of the signatories of a secret decision made in September 1920 by the leadership of the Communist Party of Armenia which called on members to work to "speed up Armenia's defeat" in the Turkish–Armenian War and "dissolve the Armenian army by all means."[2]
From November 1920 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia and chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Armenia. He signed the declaration of the Sovietization of Armenia. On December 2, 1920, Vladimir Lenin sent him a telegram welcoming the establishment of Soviet Armenia.[1]
From 1927 to 1931 he was the chairman of the
Besides his own political writings, Kasyan translated works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels into Armenian. There was a street named after him in Yerevan․ It was changed to Vazgen The First, as people did not like Kasyan for his accomplice with The Soviets.
References
- ^ a b Касьян Саркис Иванович in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)
- ^ "«Հայ բոլշևիկ կոմունիստների խնդիրը' արագացնել Հայաստանի պարտությունը». 1920թ. սեպտեմբեր" ["The task of Armenian Bolshevik communists: to speed up Armenia's defeat." September 1920]. ANI Armenian Research Center (in Armenian). 4 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ "Касьян Сергей Иванович". ru.openlist.wiki (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-09-24.