The Baku Commune, 1917-1918

Ronald Grigor Suny's classic scholarly monograph on the Baku Commune of 1917-1918.

Published by Princeton University Press in 1972, Suny's monograph examines the political, social and ethnic dynamics of the Baku Commune of 1917-1918. Covering the Baku Soviet, Shaumian's administration and the Bolshevik-Dashnak-Musavat rivalry, it is a key reference for the background to the Army of Islam's Baku campaign in the summer of 1918. In this collection it stands as a scholarly account from the Soviet/Bolshevik side of events.