Armenian Populist Party

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Armenian. Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Armenian Wikipedia article at [[:hy:Հայ ժողովրդական կուսակցություն]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|hy|Հայ ժողովրդական կուսակցություն}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Armenian Populist Party (Armenian: Հայ Ժողովրդական Կուսակցություն) was a political party founded in March 1917 in Russian Armenia. Its members had previously belonged to the Russian Kadet party. The Populists had a liberal programme and drew their support from middle-class Armenians in Tbilisi and Baku.^[1]

History

The Populists had 43 of the 204 representatives in the Armenian National Congress of October 1917^[2] and two of the 15 seats in the subsequent Armenian National Council.^[3]

References

^ Hovannisian Republic, p.17
^ Ter-Minassian pp.30-31
^ Hovannisian, p.18 footnote

Sources

Richard G. Hovannisian The Republic of Armenia: The First Year 1918-19 (University of California, 1971)
Anahide Ter-Minassian La République d'Arménie 1918-20 (Éditions Complexe, 2006 ed.)

Political parties in Armenia