The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, established after the Red Army entered Baku and ended the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. From 1922 to 1936 it was part of the Transcaucasian republic, and then became a full Soviet republic. Baku's oil industry was central to the Soviet economy, particularly during the Second World War. The republic included the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Nakhchivan autonomous republic, and tensions over Karabakh grew in the late 1980s. The Soviet army's crackdown in Baku in January 1990 strengthened the independence movement, and Azerbaijan declared its independence as the Soviet Union dissolved.
Before and after
- 7 April 1920Birth of Ravi Shankar
- 15 April 1920Birth of Richard von Weizsäcker
- from 19 April 1920 to 26 April 1920San Remo conference
- 26 April 1920Great Debate
- from 28 April 1920 to 18 October 1991Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
- 18 May 1920Birth of John Paul II
- 4 June 1920Treaty of Trianon
- 14 June 1920Death of Max Weber
- 25 July 1920Birth of Rosalind Franklin
More in Civilizations & archaeology
- from 28 May 1918 to 28 April 1920Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- 4 November 1922Howard Carter finds the tomb of Tutankhamun
- from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991Soviet Union
- from 29 October 1929 to 1 January 1941Great Depression
- 23 September 1932Founding of Saudi Arabia
- from 15 March 1933 to 23 May 1945Nazi Germany
The era
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