Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan

1918-1919 British-controlled anti-Soviet dictatorship in Azerbaijan

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Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan
(1918–1918)

Mughan Territorial Administration
(1918–1919)

1918–1919

Left: Flag of the White movement
Right: Union Jack

Location of Lankaran District

Capital

Goytepe

Common languages

Russian, Azerbaijani, Talysh

Government

Military dictatorship

Leader

• 1918

T. P. Sukhorukov

Historical era

Russian Civil War

• Established

1 August 1918

• Reorganized as Mughan Territorial Administration

December 1918

• Disestablished

25 April 1919

Succeeded by

Mughan Soviet Republic

Today part of

Azerbaijan

The Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan was a British-controlled anti-communist short-lived state founded in the Lankaran region on 4 August 1918, amid the Mughan clashes. The Mughan government did not support independence of Azerbaijan and it was led by white Russian colonel T. P. Sukhorukov who acted under the protection of the British occupation of Baku. Mughan declared to be an autonomous part of "single and indivisible Russia." In December 1918, it was reorganized as Mughan Territorial Administration. On 25 April 1919 a violent protest organized by Talysh workers of pro-Bolshevik orientation exploded in Lankaran and deposed the Mughan Territorial Administration. On 15 May the Extraordinary Congress of the "Councils of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies" of Lankaran district proclaimed the Mughan Soviet Republic.

References

Smele, Jonathan D. (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 771. ISBN 9781442252813.

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