Special Transcaucasian Committee

Special Transcaucasian Committee
Особый Закавказский Комитет
Special Transcaucasian Committee
Autonomy of Russia

 

1917

Flag of Transcaucasia

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Location of Transcaucasia
Capital Tiflis
Government Autonomous committee of the Russian Provisional Government
Chairman
 - 1917 Vasily Kharlamov
History
 - Established March 9 1917
 - Transcaucasian Commissariat declared November 24 1917

Special Transcaucasian Committee (Ozakom : Osobyi Zakavkazskii Komitet, Особый Закавказский Комитет) was established on March 9, 1917, with Member of the State Duma V. A. Kharlamov as Chairman, to replace the Imperial Viceroy Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich and with special instruction to establish civil administrations in areas occupied in the course of the war on the Caucasian front by the Russian Provisional Government in the Transcaucasia as the highest organ of civil administrative body. Commissars were appointed for the Terek and Kuban oblasts, and these as well as the Committee were to carry on relations with central government institutions through a Commissar for Caucasian Affairs in Petrograd attached to the Provisional Government.

Soviets also sprang up throughout the area and, in time, organized an influential Regional Center at Tiflis using the loyalty of the Russian Armenians. Hakob Zavriev was instrumental in having Ozakom issue a decree about the administration of the occupied territories. This region was officially identified as "the land of Turkish Armenia" and transferred to a civilian rule under Zavriev, who oversaw districts Trebizon, Erzurum, Bitlis, and Van.[1] Each of the districts under Administration for Western Armenia had their own Armenian governor, with Armenian civil officials. The position of the Caucasian Muslems was different though membership was drown from ethnically representatives of Duma deputies.

In November 1917, the first government of the independent Transcaucasia was created in Tbilisi as the "Transcaucasian Commissariat (Sejm)" replaced "Transcaucasian Committee" following the Bolshevik seizure of power in St. Petersburg. It was headed by a Georgian Menshevik Nikolay Chkheidze. On December 5, 1917, this new "Transcaucasian Committee" given the endorsment to Armistice of Erzincan that was signed with the Ottoman command of Third Army.[2] This was followed with what is known as Trabzon peace nogetions. On February 10, 1918, the Sejm gathered and made the decision to establish independence. On February 24, 1918, The Sejm proclaimed the transcaucasus an independent under Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. Headed by the Georgian Social Democrat Evgeni Gegechkori, the Transcaucasian Commissariat was anti-Bolshevik in its political goals and sought the separation of Transcaucasia from Bolshevik Russia.

The committee ignored the Social Democratic hegemony in the region and provoked the Soviet to demand its abolition.[3]

Members

The Ozakom composed of five members:[4]

References

  1. ^ Richard G. Hovannisian, The Armenian People From Ancient To Modern Times. page 284
  2. ^ Tadeusz Swietochowski, Russian Azerbaijan 1905-1920, page 119
  3. ^ Rogovin Frankel "Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917" Page 254
  4. ^ Swietochowski, Tadeusz (1985). Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-26310-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=cozSOSsv7ZsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Russian+Azerbaijan&hl=en&ei=BIg3TKvhGML38AbhrMWnBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Ozakom&f=false. Retrieved July 9, 2010. 

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