Կարինէ Ալեքսանեան2026-06-122026-06-122021Ալեքսանեան, Կ., «Խորհրդային իշխանութեան քաղաքական բռնութիւններն Ալեքսանդրապոլի գաւառում (Ապրիլ-Դեկտեմբեր 1921)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2021, Պէյրութ, էջ 157-170https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1420The paper describes and examines the governance of the early sovietization period in the province of Alexandropole. Lacking enough grassroots support, the authorities established in Armenia on December 2, 1920 relied on violence and force to implement their policies. The newly formed authorities first recruited members of allied parties, who joined in to improve the socio-economic conditions of the province, from which the Turkish occupying forces were still being evacuated. However, the contradictions and rivalry between the local and the central authorities generated the opportunity to use force. Failure to improve conditions led to violence and the purging of Communist ranks of allied figures and the shifting from policies of "military communism" to those of a "new economic plan" and the consolidation of communist rule in the province and the country at large.