Failed Bolshevik coup in the Democratic Republic of Georgia
1920 Georgian coup attempt
Part of the Russian Civil War
The former Military College in Tbilisi, targeted during the coup
Date
May 2–3, 1920
Location
Georgia
Result
Georgian Victory
Treaty of Moscow signed
Belligerents
Georgian Bolsheviks supported by: Soviet Russia
Georgian government
Commanders and leaders
Giorgi Kvinitadze
Strength
Approx 25 fighters
Georgian military cadets
Casualties and losses
Several killed and wounded, three captured and later executed
A simultaneous invasion of Georgian territory from Azerbaijan was repulsed and a treaty of mutual recognition signed by Georgia and Russia on May 7
The Georgian coup in May 1920 was an unsuccessful attempt to take power by the Bolsheviks in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Relying on the 11th Red Army of Soviet Russia operating in neighboring Azerbaijan, the Bolsheviks attempted to take control of a military school and government offices in the Georgian capital of Tiflis on May 3. The Georgian government suppressed the disorders in Tiflis and concentrated its forces to successfully block the advance of the Russian troops on the Azerbaijani-Georgian border. The Georgian resistance, combined with an uneasy war with Poland, persuaded the Red leadership to defer their plans for Georgia's Sovietization and recognize Georgia as an independent nation in the May 7 treaty of Moscow.[1][2][3]
^Kazemzadeh, Firuz (1951), The Struggle for Transcaucasia, 1917–1921, pp. 296, 314. The New York Philosophical Library
^Lang, David Marshall (1962), A Modern History of Georgia, pp. 225–6. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
^Pipes, Richard (1954), The Formation of the Soviet Union, Communism and Nationalism, 1917–1923, p. 227. Harvard University Press
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