Dilgam ismailov

to 1915 June decree from Azerbaijan more than 50 young 
people by calling a military back front as labor force had 
reduced amount of villages. Even horses, oxen and carts were 
confiscated for military needs. Food prices increased 300-500 
percent Military supplies carry out by railway from South 

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Caucasus therefore was limited to bring grain and flour. 
Famine and starvation had begun. Every day from front line 
areas to Baku and others districts hundreds wounded were 
brought. Besides, in Baku placed a large troops. Due to 
refugees and soldiers the population of Baku increased 70.000.
2. Political situation in Azerbaijan after the February 
Revolution and the October Revolution in Russia 1917
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year. Baku Commune and its’ anti Azerbaijan policy. 
 
After the February Revolution (1917) in Russia 
established Special Cimittee of the South Caucasus. But after 
the October revolution (1917) this Committee didn’t recogni-
zed the Soviet regime and was overthrown. On 15 November 
to manage the South Caucasus in Tbilisi Transcaucasia 
(South Caucasus) Commissioner was arranged. Chairman of 
commissioner was Georgian menshevik (menshevics – a group 
of social-democrats) Y.P Gegechkori. 3 South Caucasus 
nations were represented in this organization. This government 
didnt recognize the authority appeared in Russia had declared 
itself independent “Transcaucasia Commissioner”. In 5 De-
cember Transcaucasia Commissioner sign an armistice agree-
ment in Erzincan with the Ottoman Empire. According to the 
Erzincan agreement Russian troops begun to withdraw from 
the Caucasus front. Returning from the front the Russian army 
their weapons and ammunitions was given to the Baku 
bolsheviks’ armenian and georgian military units. The effort of 
Azerbaijan’s fraction by the decision of Transcaucasion 
commissariat in Shamkir station begun the abandonment of 
weapons of Russian regiment. As a result of resistance of Russian 
soldiers January 1918 among two sides had happened a clash. 

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Both sides were deaths and injuries. The leadership of Baku council 
from the Shamkir incidents had used confiscated weapons of the 
Muslim population, national slaughters, clean the city from 
opposite revolutionaries. Efforts to create stability in the 
Transcaucasian commissariat could not escape it from the crisis. 
Finally, beginning of February 1918 was forced to resign.