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THE TRANSCAUCASIAN SEIM AND GOVERNMENT. – THEIR
WEAKNESS AND FALL
The Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed
Transcaucasian Government
Relying on its intellectual and material strength,
the national Council
proclaimed, May 28, 1918, the independent Republic of Azerbaijan.
The events, which preceded that act so important for Azerbaijan of
Caucasus, were caused by the social and political downfall of Russia and the
usurpation of power by the bolsheviks. On the other hand, they were the result of the
situation in which
all the Caucasus was plunged, especially Transcaucasia, after the
sudden withdrawal of the Russian Government, which had hitherto reigned over that
country.
From the first days of the
Russian Revolution in February, 1917, until the
25-27 of October, when the supreme power was taken in hand by the bolsheviks, this
country was governed by the special Committee of Transcaucasia,
the members of
which had been chosen by the Provisional Government of Lvov and Kerensky; they
were members of the fourth Duma, one for each nationality (Russian,
Georgian,
Azerbaijanian and Armenian), In October the bolsheviks came into power, which
only increased tne disorder, the results of which were fatal to the entire country. One
consequence was the stoppage of every communication between the center of Russia
and the extremities of the country. The Caucasus and Transcaucasia found themselves
completely cut off not
only from Petrograd and Moscow, but also from all Russia.
Left
thus to themselves, the nations of Transcaucasia, through their
representatives, united to form one power for the whole country, with full legislative,
judicial, administrative and financial powers.
At
that moment a cabinet, was established in Tiflis, in which all the
representatives of the Transcaucasian nations (Georgian,
Azerbaijanian and
Armenian) made a part. They were called commissionaries.
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