The Union of Armenian Social Democrats (Armenian: Հայ Սոցիալ-Դեմոկրատների Միություն, Hay Sotsial-Demokratneri Miut'yun, abbreviated ՀՍԴՄ, HSDM), also known as the League of Armenian Social Democrats, was the first Armenian Iskraist social democratic organization.[1]

History

The HSDM was founded in Tiflis in 1902 by Stepan Shaumian, Melik Melikian, Ashot Khoumerian, Assadour Kakhoyan, Bogdan Knunyants, and Arshak Zubarian.[1][2] The party's manifesto, which adhered to proletarian internationalism, was printed in the first and only edition of its newspaper Proletariat in October 1902.[3][1] Vladimir Lenin hailed the positions of the HSDM on the national question,[4] but criticized its federalist demands.[2] In March 1903, the HSDM merged into the Caucasus Organization of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Barseghyan, Khikar Hakobi (1979). "Հայ Սոցիալ-Դեմոկրատների Միություն" (in Armenian). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences. p. 129.
  2. ^ International Review. The Development of the Left Wing of Armenian and Macedonian Socialism
  3. ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (1993). Looking toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-253-20773-9.
  4. ^ Shakarian, Pietro A. (2025). [Google Books Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin]. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0253073556.