Special Transcaucasian Committee
| Special Transcaucasian Committee Особый Закавказский Комитет Osobyi Zakavkazskii Komitet | |||||||||||
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| Autonomous area of Russia | |||||||||||
| 1917 | |||||||||||
 Chairman | | ||||||||||
• 1917 | Vasily Kharlamov | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 9 March 1917 | ||||||||||
• Transcaucasian Commissariat declared | 11 November 1917 | ||||||||||
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The Special Transcaucasian Committee (
Petrograd
attached to the Provisional Government.
Soviets also sprang up throughout the area and, in time, organized an influential Regional Center at
Administration for Western Armenia
had their own Armenian governor, with Armenian civil officials.
In November 1917, the first government of the independent Transcaucasia was created in Tbilisi as the "
Bolshevik Russia
.
The committee ignored the Social Democratic hegemony in the region and provoked the Soviets to demand its abolition.[3]
Members
The Ozakom was composed of five members:[4]
- Vasily Kharlamov, Chairman, Russian;
- Kita Abashidze, Social-Federalist, Georgian, subsequently replaced by Akaki Chkhenkeli (also Georgian);
- Mammad Yusif Jafarov, Azerbaijani.
- Michael Papadjanian, Armenian.
References
- ^ Richard G. Hovannisian, The Armenian People From Ancient To Modern Times. page 284
- ^ Tadeusz Swietochowski, Russian Azerbaijan 1905–1920, page 119
- ^ Rogovin Frankel, Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917, page 254.
- ISBN 0-521-26310-7. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
See also
- Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
- Administration for Western Armenia
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