2001/04/01 by Michael G. Smith · 4 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Soviet and Russian History #American Constitutional Law and Politics #European Political History Analysis
paper · doi:10.1177/002200940103600202
openalex publication_date 2001/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Using the case study of an infamous murder scandal, this article uncovers some of the more complex relations and misleading perceptions about the Bolshevik and Musavat parties in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the Russian Revolution and civil war. It explores the power of rumour-making to configure and emplot their competing narratives of the revolution: informed either by the imperatives for social polarization and all-Russian socialism, or by the imperatives for class co-operation and Azerbaijani national socialism.