February Uprising
1921 uprising in Armenia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the skirmishes between right-wing and left-wing forces between in February 1934, in Austria sometimes called February Uprising, see Austrian Civil War.
The February Uprising (Armenian: Փետրվարյան ապստամբություն, romanized: P’etrvaryan apstambut’yun)[lower-alpha 1] was an anti-Bolshevik rebellion by the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation which started on February 13 and was suppressed on April 2, 1921, by the recapture of Yerevan by Bolshevik forces.
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February Uprising | |||||||
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Part of Sovietization of Armenia and Southern Front of the Russian Civil War | |||||||
Headline in The New York Times from March 17, 1921 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Armenian Revolutionary Federation |
Revolutionary committee (Revkom) of Armenia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Simon Vratsian Garegin Njdeh Suren Tarkhanan |
Anatoliy Gekker Sarkis Kasyan Avis Nurijanyan | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Salvation Committee of the Fatherland | 11th Red Army | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
~10,000 (April)[1] | unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
unknown | 200 (in mid-April, Soviet claim)[2] |
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