The Baku Commune, 1917-1918

Ronald Grigor Suny's English-language scholarly study of the Baku Commune (1917-1918), examining the political and social history of Baku under Shaumian.

An English-language monograph on the Baku Soviet and the Baku Commune established after the 1917 revolution, focusing on the social base and collapse of Bolshevik rule under Stepan Shaumian. Because it reconstructs the background to the struggle for power in Baku in the summer of 1918, it is a key reference for understanding the opposing side of the Caucasus Islamic Army's Baku campaign. It is included as an example of foreign scholarship on Baku's political environment in 1918.