Russian Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY ·
26 Baku Commissars (1918)
On the Russian Revolution map as “Baku: the oil and the commissars”
Sep 1918 — After Baku falls, twenty-six captured Bolshevik commissars are taken across the Caspian and shot in the desert. The Caucasus oil that everyone wants is remembered here with its dead.
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- Allied intervention in Russia (chapter 10 of Russian Revolution)
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- The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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