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Memoirs of officer Ernst Paraquin as a source about the September 1918 events in Baku

Gunel Suleymanova · Social Sciences, 2025

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A Russian-language article examining German officer Ernst Paraquin's memoirs as a source on the September 1918 events in Baku.

This 2025 article by Gunel Suleymanova assesses the memoirs of Ernst Paraquin, a German officer attached to the Caucasus Army of Islam staff, as a historical source. It addresses the reliability and use of his testimony regarding the contested events in Baku following the city's capture on 15 September 1918. It is directly relevant to the collection for memoir criticism and the historiography of Baku in 1918.

The source's own abstract

МЕМУАРЫ ОФИЦЕРА ЭРНСТА ПАРАКВИНА КАК

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The source's keywords

Art · Art history · Law · Memoir · Officer · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychology