The secret document argue that Armenian nationalist Stepan Shaumian was a member of the Baku Committee of Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun Party, said Yagub Mahmudov, the ...

"The government created by 26 Baku Commissars [in 1918] in fact was a government of the Armenian Dashnaks,” Mahmudov said. “A letter sent to Lenin by Stepan Shaumian after the March genocide ...