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*Defected government units<ref name="Ghost of Freedom">{{cite book|last=King|first=Charles|title=The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus|url=https://archive.org/details/ghostoffreedomhi0000king|url-access=registration|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199884322|page=[https://archive.org/details/ghostoffreedomhi0000king/page/172 172]}}</ref>
*{{flagicon image|Azerbaijansovietrep1920-1921.svg}} [[Soviet Azerbaijan]]
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The '''May Uprising'''<ref>{{cite book|last=Shaginyan|first=Marietta|title=Journey Through Soviet Armenia|year=1954|publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House|author-link=Marietta Shaginyan|quote=Underground Bolshevik organizations worked actively in all parts of the country, preparing the people for a general uprising. In May 1920 the uprising broke out and it has gone down in the history of Armenia as the "May Uprising."}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Payaslian|first=Simon|title=The history of Armenia: from the origins to the present|url=https://archive.org/details/historyarmeniapa00paya|url-access=limited|year=2007|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=9781403974679|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyarmeniapa00paya/page/n178 170]}}</ref> ({{lang-hy|Մայիսյան ապստամբություն|translit=Mayisyan apstambutyun}}) was a [[coup d'état]] attempt by the Armenian [[Bolsheviks]] that started in Alexandropol (modern-day [[Gyumri]]) on May 10, 1920.<ref>{{cite book|last=Panossian|first=Razmik|title=The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars|year=2006|publisher=Hurst & Co.|location=London|isbn=9780231511339|page=258}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Derogy|first=Jacques|title=Resistance and Revenge: The Armenian Assassination of the Turkish Leaders Responsible for the 1915 Massacres and Deportations|year=1990|publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey|isbn=9781412833165|page=106|author-link=:fr:Jacques Derogy}}</ref> It was eventually suppressed by the Armenian government on May 14 and its leaders executed. Although the revolt failed, [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenia]] was
==Background==
Since the establishment of the [[First Republic of Armenia|Republic of Armenia]] in 1918, the political parties and different factions
==Revolt==
Encouraged by the [[Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan]] in late April 1920, the Armenian Bolsheviks headed by [[Avis Nurijanyan]]{{sfn|Hovannisian|1996a|p=211}} staged a revolt in May.<ref name="Scanlan">{{cite web|last=Scanlan|first=Chris|title=Save Me From Hope That I'll Be Saved: The Birth and Death of the Democratic Republic of Armenia|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/105636113/Save-Me-From-Hope-That-I-ll-Be-Saved-The-Birth-and-Death-of-the-Democratic-Republic-of-Armenia|access-date=9 August 2013|date=December 14, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Մայիսյան ապստամբությունը |trans-title=The May Uprising |url=https://republic.mediamax.am/story/107 |access-date=24 October 2022 |website=Mediamax |language=hy}}</ref> The events preceding the revolt started on May 1, 1920, [[International Workers' Day]], with the Bolsheviks demonstrating against the government of Armenia in capital [[Yerevan]] and other cities.<ref name="Հայոց Պատմություն"/>
The revolt escalated after the armored train ''Vardan Zoravar'' and its crew under Musayelyan's command joined the Bolshevik rebels who had formed a [[Revolutionary committee (Soviet Union)|revolutionary committee]] (''Armkom'') and proclaimed Armenia a Soviet state in Alexandopol on May 10.<ref>''National Republic'', Volumes 21-22, 1933, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vRAhAQAAMAAJ&q=may+10+1920+armenia+uprising
==Aftermath==
The leaders of the revolt, including Sargis Musayelyan and Ghukas Ghukasyan,{{sfn|Kiesling|2000|p=49}} were initially imprisoned as the Soviet government on 4 June warning that diplomatic relations would be "detrimented" if the "persecution of Communists continued" and the fact that several notable Dashnaks were imprisoned in Soviet Russia and Azerbaijan at the time.{{sfn|Hovannisian|1996a|pp=252–253}} Following the Soviet invasion of Zangezur and the capture and torture of Dashnaks The Communist party of Armenia was banned in Armenia.<ref name="Հայոց Պատմություն"/> Armenia's domestic situation
==Legacy==
===Soviet period===
[[File:Mayisyan apstambneri hushardzan Gyumrium 02.jpg|thumbnail|Monument to the participants of May Uprising in [[Gyumri]].]]The revolt was extensively
A statue of Ghukas Ghukasyan was erected in 1935 in the park near the [[Armenian National Agrarian University|Agrarian University]] in central Yerevan. The statue was blown up in 1990, during the height of the anti-Soviet struggle in Armenia.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=hy:Ղուկաս Ղուկասյանի արձանը|url=http://hinyerevan.com/#!/photos/505/|publisher=HinYerevan project|access-date=13 August 2013|language=hy}}</ref> In 2009, the statue of prominent Armenian astrophysicist [[Viktor Hambardzumyan]] was put on its place.<ref>{{cite news|script-title=hy:Վիկտոր Համբարձումյանի արձանը՝ Ղուկաս Ղուկասյանի արձանի տեղում|url=http://www.azg.am/AM/2009111825|access-date=13 August 2013|newspaper=[[Azg Daily]]|date=18 November 2009|language=hy}}</ref> The central square of Armenia's second largest city [[Gyumri]] (called Leninakan during the Soviet period) was called after the revolt. It is now called [[Vardanants Square]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Urban Spaces After Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities|year=2011|publisher=Campus|location=Frankfurt am Main|isbn=9783593393841|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9k9pXQZ6oiEC
===Republic of Armenia (1991–present)===
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==Bibliography==
{{Refbegin}}
*{{Cite Rediscovering Armenia |ref={{sfnref|Kiesling|2000}}}}
*{{Cite The Republic of Armenia Volume 3}}
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[[Category:Communism in Armenia]]
[[Category:Bolshevik uprisings]]
[[Category:1920 in Armenia]]
[[Category:Conflicts in 1920]]
[[Category:May 1920 events]]
[[Category:Armenia in the Russian Civil War]]
[[Category:Attempted coups in Armenia|1920]]
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