Azerbaijani Democratic Party
The Azerbaijan Democratic Party (Azerbaijani: آذربایجان دموکرات فرقهسی, romanized: Azərbaycan Demokrat Firqəsi; Persian: فرقه دموکرات آذربایجان, romanized: Ferqa-ye demokrāt-e Āḏarbāyjān) was a communist party supported by the Soviet Union and founded by Jafar Pishevari in Tabriz, Iran, in September 1945. ADP was founded as an opposition party against the Pahlavi dynasty. Soviet-supported Tudeh party dissolved its Azerbaijan chapter and ordered its members to join ADP. The ADP ruled the Soviet-backed Azerbaijan People's Government from 1945 until 1946 with Pishevari as premier.
Azerbaijani Democratic Party | |
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| Leader | Jafar Pishevari |
| Chairman | Ghulam Yahya Daneshian[1] |
| Founder | Mir Jafar Baghirov[2] |
| Founded | 3 September 1945[2] |
| Dissolved | 1960[1] |
| Split from | Tudeh Party of Iran |
| Merged into | Tudeh Party of Iran[1] |
| Headquarters | Baku, USSR (1946–60)[2] Tabriz, Iran (1945–46)[2] |
| Ideology | Azerbaijani nationalism[3] Communism Marxism-Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
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References
- Abrahamian, Ervand (1982), Iran Between Two Revolutions, Princeton University Press, p. 455, ISBN 0-691-10134-5
- Ahmadoghlu, Ramin (2019), "Azerbaijani National Identity in Iran, 1921–1946: Roots, Development, and Limits", The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 10 (3): 253–278, doi:10.1080/21520844.2019.1656455
- Yolaçan, Serkan (2019), "Azeri networks through thick and thin: West Asian politics from a diasporic eye", Journal of Eurasian Studies, 10 (1): 36–47, doi:10.1177/1879366518814936
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