Հայոց անկախ պետականության վերականգնման խնդիրը 1917-1918 թթ. ՀՅԴ-ՌՍԴԲ(Բ)Կ հարաբերությունների համատեքստում

Հայաստանի առաջին հանրապետության հռչակման 100-ամյակի առթիվ

Abstract

The issue of whether the declaration of the First Independent Republic of Armenia was planned or not is still being discussed today. It is an issue that leads to a deadlock. The real issue we have tried to observe was whether in 1915-1918 there was a decision to re-establish Armenia’s independent statehood in the program agenda of the main political force in the Armenian reality – Armenian Revolutionary Federation. We discussed the issue under consideration in the context of the negotiations between the ARF and Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, which came to power as a result of the October Revolution in 1917. As a base document, we used the official statement of the ARF presented at Stockholm Peace Conference in July-December, 1917. Facts come to prove that Soviet Russia needed to maintain its victory in the revolution at all costs and avoid the transformations of "internal borders" as much as possible, in particular the tangible transformations in Transcaucasia. This simple logic was to operate from October, 1917 until the conclusion of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. In parallel, we tried to understand the time sequence of the appointment of Stepan Shahumyan as a temporary Commissar Extraordinary for the affairs of the Caucasus and the proclamation of the “Decree on Turkish Armenia”.