Red Army invasion of Armenia

The Red Army invasion of Armenia, also known as the Russian-Armenian war or Sovietization or Soviet invasion of Armenia, Soviet occupation of Armenia, was a military campaign carried out by the 11th Army of Soviet Russia from September to 29 November 1920 to install a new Soviet government in the First Republic of Armenia, a former territory of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. The invasion coincided with the anti-government insurrection staged by the local Armenian Bolsheviks in the capital, Yerevan, and other cities and populated place over the country. The invasion led to the dissolution of the First Republic of Armenia and the establishment of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Red Army invasion of Armenia
Part of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War and the Russian Civil War
Red Army in Yerevan, November 1920
Date September – 29 November 1920 Location First Republic of Armenia Result Overthrow of the Armenian government Establishment of Armenian SSR
Belligerents
Russian SFSR  Armenian Bolsheviks  Azerbaijan SSR	First Republic of Armenia	Turkish Provisional Government
Commanders and leaders
Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Levandovsky Mikhail G. Yefremov	Simon Vratsian Alexander Khatisian	Kâzım Karabekir

See also

• Armenian–Azerbaijani War
• Turkish–Armenian War

Further reading

• Hovannisian, Richard G. The Republic of Armenia. 4 volumes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971-1996.
• Hovannisian, Richard G. Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
• Kazemzadeh, Firuz. The Struggle for Transcaucasia, 1917-1921. New York, Oxford: Philosophical Library, 1951.
• (in Armenian) Khatisian, Alexander. Հայաստանի Հանրապետութեան Ծագումն ու Զարգացումը (The Birth and Development of the Armenian Republic). Athens: Nor Or Publishing, 1930.
• (in French) Ter Minassian, Anahide. La République d’Arménie: 1918-1920. Bruxelles: Editions Complexe, 1989.