February Uprising
The February Uprising (Armenian: Փետրվարյան ապստամբություն, romanized: P’etrvaryan apstambut’yun) 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.
| 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
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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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) | unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| unknown | 200 (in mid-April, Soviet claim) | ||||||
| History of Armenia |
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| Timeline • Origins • Etymology |
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