The Brief Independence of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan I THE GREAT WAR 1919

Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan used the power vacuum after the 1917 revolution in Russia and after the collapse of the Central Powers in 1918 to gain their independence. But the Caucasus region was of vital strategic importance to the new Russian regime, to the British and to the Turks.   » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar  Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A/join   » OUR PODCAST https://realtimehistory.net/podcast - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show.   » BUY OUR SOURCES IN OUR AMAZON STORES https://realtimehistory.net/amazon * *Buying via this link supports The Great War (Affiliate-Link)   » SOURCES  De Waal, Thomas. The Caucasus (Oxford University Press, 2010). Engelstein, Laura. Russia in Flames (Oxford University Press, 2017). Figes, Orlando. A People’s Tragedy. The Russian Revolution (London: The Bodley Head, 2017 [1996]). Goyushov, Altay: Azerbaijan, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2016-03-31. Opolot Okia, “The Northey Forced Labor Crisis, 1920-1921": A Symptomatic Reading in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2 (2008): 263-293. Mawdsley, Evan. The Russian Civil War (New York: Pegasus Books, 2005). » MORE THE GREAT WAR Website: https://realtimehistory.net  Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheGreatWarYT Instagram: https://instagram.com/the_great_war Twitter: https://twitter.com/WW1_Series Reddit: htpps://reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel   » OTHER PROJECTS  16 DAYS IN BERLIN: https://realtimehistory.net/pages/16-days-in-berlin   »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Maps: Daniel Kogosov (https://www.patreon.com/Zalezsky) Research by: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Florian Wittig   Channel Design: Alexander Clark Original Logo: David van Stephold   Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2020