The Burial of General Maude

The Burial of General Maude:
"the Sovietisation of Armenia The turning to and hardening of Turkey towards Mustafa Kemal was self-explanatory, considering the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the colonialist greed of the Western Powers. It actually became easy by the Treaty of Mudros where nothing was mentioned about Turkish demobilization. Even as early as 1919 the eastern army under the command of Kazim Karabekir, was a brewing ground for an ideology of national renaissance and vengeance. A little later Mustafa Kemal became the leader of that movement and set up a heretic government in Ankara, which refused to recognize the Treaty of Sevres. Soviet Russia, worried about the designs of the Western Powers on the Straits and the Turkish shores, encouraged Turkish nationalism. In August 1920, the Conference of the peoples of the East took place in Baku under Soviet auspices and with the agreement of the Azerbaijani leadership, when Enver Pasha again reiterated the Pan-Turanian brotherhood. Once more Armenia was endangered. From May 1920 onward, the Bolshevik upheaval in Armenia gave a premonition of Russian attitudes towards conquering the Caucasus. In some regions, the disorder was further inflamed by Turko -Tartar activities which were aimed at disturbing the peace and weakening the central authority. Worried about the deteriorating situation, the government of Yerevan opened negotiations with Moscow, in a spirit of mutual friendship and understanding, and asked for Moscow's assistance."