The Baku Commune, 1917–1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution

Ronald Grigor Suny's 1972 monograph examines the Baku Commune of 1917–1918 through the lens of class and nationality.

Published by Princeton University Press in 1972, this scholarly monograph analyses the rise and fall of the Baku Commune (1917–1918) at the intersection of class conflict and the national question within the Russian Revolution. It is a standard reference for understanding the political background of Baku Soviet rule under Shaumian, the setting into which the Army of Islam advanced in the summer of 1918. In the collection it serves as the principal English-language study of the Soviet/revolutionary side of the 1918 Baku events.