Azerbaijan People's Government

Azerbaijan People's Government
آذربایجان میللی حکومتی
1945–1946
Flag of Azerbaijan People's Government
Flag
Coat of arms of Azerbaijan People's Government
Coat of arms
Anthem: Anthem of the Azerbaijan People's Government
Location of the Azerbaijan People's Government
Location of the Azerbaijan People's Government
StatusPuppet state of the Soviet Union[1][2]
CapitalTabriz
Common languagesAzerbaijani
GovernmentMarxist-Leninist one-party state
President 
• 1945–46
Ja'far Pishevari
Historical eraCold War
• Established
November 1945
• Disestablished
December 1946
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Imperial State of Iran
Imperial State of Iran
Today part ofIran

The Azerbaijan People's Government (Azerbaijani: آذربایجان میللی حکومتی - Azərbaycan Milli Hökuməti; Persian: حکومت خودمختار آذربایجان) was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state[3][4] in northern Iran from November 1945 to December 1946. Like the unrecognized Republic of Mahabad, it was a puppet state of the Soviet Union.[1][2] Established in Iranian Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan People's Government capital was the city of Tabriz. It was headed by an ethno-separatist and communist government led by the Azerbaijani Democratic Party,[5] which also followed a pan-Turkist discourse.[6] Its establishment and demise were a part of the Iran crisis, an early event in the Cold War.

  1. ^ a b Frederik Coene (2009), The Caucasus - An Introduction, Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, Routledge, p. 136, ISBN 9781135203023, As a result, the People's Republic of Azerbaijan and the Kurdish People's Republic (the Republic of Mahabad), two short-lived Soviet puppet states, were set up late in 1945...
  2. ^ a b Donald Newton Wilber (2014). Iran, Past and Present: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic. Princeton University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-1400857470. In December the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, announced the establishment of an autonomous state of Azerbaijan, and at the same time the Russians set up another puppet state, the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, also in Azerbaijan.
  3. ^ Chelkowski, Peter J.; Pranger, Robert J. (1988). Ideology and Power in the Middle East: Studies in Honor of George Lenczowski. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822307815. OCLC 16923212.
  4. ^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691053424. OCLC 7975938.
  5. ^ Bonakdarian, Mansour (2022). "ḴIĀBĀNI, SHAIKH MOḤAMMAD". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.
  6. ^ Ahmadi, Hamid (2017). "The Clash of Nationalisms: Iranian response to Baku's irredentism". In Kamrava, Mehran (ed.). The Great Game in West Asia: Iran, Turkey and the South Caucasus. Oxford University Press. p. 109, 121. ISBN 978-0190869663.

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