{"id":111996,"date":"2019-11-01T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1905.az\/?p=111996"},"modified":"2019-11-01T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:44:08","slug":"how-azerbaijan-lost-zangezur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/how-azerbaijan-lost-zangezur\/","title":{"rendered":"How Azerbaijan lost Zangezur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AZpressAZ_Zenkezur_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-111983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AZpressAZ_Zenkezur_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AZpressAZ_Zenkezur_-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AZpressAZ_Zenkezur_-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>The article describes the developments of the\u00a0summer of 1920, immediately after the capture\u00a0<\/span><span>of Azerbaijan by Bolshevik Russia until the summer\u00a0of 1921, when the western part of the former\u00a0<\/span><span>Zangezur region was handed over to Armenia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span>Using archive material and literature, the author\u00a0<\/span><span>reports on military and political developments\u00a0related to the eff orts to Dashnak and then Soviet\u00a0<\/span><span>Armenia aided by Armenian separatists to annex\u00a0the Zangezur region and Azerbaijan\u2019s attempts to\u00a0<\/span><span>save it, the policies of the Bolshevik Kremlin towards\u00a0using Armenia as a tool to strengthen its geopolitical\u00a0infl uence in the region in order to facilitate the\u00a0transfer of Zangezur to western Armenia to undermine\u00a0the integrity of Azerbaijani lands and isolate\u00a0it from Turkey. The article also reviews secret minutes\u00a0of a plenary session of the Caucasian Bureau of\u00a0the Central Committee of the Communist Party of\u00a0Bolsheviks from 3 June 1921, which decided to conduct\u00a0a military operation in Zangezur to eliminate\u00a0the units of General Nzhdeh and pass this region,\u00a0along with Nagorno-Karabakh, to Soviet Armenia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1905.az\/ru\/\u043a\u0430\u043a-\u0430\u0437\u0435\u0440\u0431\u0430\u0439\u0434\u0436\u0430\u043d-\u043f\u043e\u0442\u0435\u0440\u044f\u043b-\u0437\u0430\u043d\u0433\u0435\u0437\u0443\u0440\/\">More\u00a0in Russian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Ilgar Niftaliyev<\/em><span>,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> PhD in History, from the Institute of History of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/azpress.az<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article describes the developments of the\u00a0summer of 1920, immediately after the capture\u00a0of Azerbaijan by Bolshevik Russia until the summer\u00a0of 1921, when the western part of the former\u00a0Zangezur region was handed over to Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":111983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[654,148,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-create-an-armenian-state-slide-2","category-analysis-armenian-state","category-armenian-state"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AZpressAZ_Zenkezur_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}