The coup attempt in Georgia was carried out on May 3, 1920 by the Bolsheviks in the Georgian Democratic Republic . Relying on the help of the 11th army of the RSFSR operating in neighboring Azerbaijan , the Bolsheviks tried to take control of a military school and government offices in the Georgian capital, Tiflis . The Georgian government suppressed the riots in Tiflis and concentrated its forces on blocking Russian troops on the Azerbaijani-Georgian border. Against the backdrop of a difficult war with Poland, the Soviet government had to postpone its plans for the Sovietization of Georgia and recognize Georgia as an independent state within the framework of the Moscow agreement of May 7 [1] [2] [3] .
| Coup attempt in Georgia | |||||
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| Former military college in Tbilisi , the target of the rebels | |||||
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| The Bolsheviks | Georgian government | ||||
Background
After the inability to maintain control of Georgia after the 1917 revolution in Russia, most of the Bolshevik Georgian leaders moved to Soviet Russia, from where they led an underground leadership aimed at undermining the Menshevik government in Tiflis. A number of peasants preparing a revolution against the Mensheviks from 1918 to 1919 were canceled, but measures were soon taken to prepare for a massive uprising in the state [1] [2] .
Notes
- β 1 2 Kazemzadeh, Firuz (1951), The Struggle for Transcaucasia, 1917-1921 , pp. 296, 314. The New York Philosophical Library
- β 1 2 Lang, David Marshall (1962), A Modern History of Georgia , pp. 225-6. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- β Pipes, Richard (1954), The Formation of the Soviet Union, Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923 , p. 227. Harvard University Press