The Union of Armenian Social Democrats (, , abbreviated ՀՍԴՄ, HSDM), also known as the League of Armenian Social Democrats, was the first Armenian Iskraist social democratic organization.

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

See also

Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Communist Party of Armenia (Soviet Union)

References

External links On the Manifesto of the Armenian Social-Democrats, V. I. Lenin, 1 February 1903, Marxists Internet Archive A History of Armenian Critical Thought: The Early Armenian Bolsheviks by Eddie Arnavoudian (foreword by Pietro A. Shakarian), The Critical Corner, Groong