Talk:Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

Old talk
I reverted insertion of picture which claimed that it was showing Azerbaijani soldiers of SS, while in fact it were "Muslim volunteers in German army in Berlin" --Grandmaster 11:57, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I reverted a sock of the banned user. Banned users are not entitled to edit Wikipedia. --Grandmaster 06:00, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposed move to Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
It seems that given that the formal name for this nation was "Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic", the soviet prefix abbreviation (-"SSR") shouldn't be in the full article name. Therefore, I propose to move the article to its full form, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. We wouldn't have an article about North Korea titled "DPRK", would we? --Micahbrwn (talk) 09:52, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


 * The move makes sense, but should be synchronized with the titles of the other 14 articles about Soviet republics. If we move one, we need to move them all. Grandmaster (talk) 12:48, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Please discuss this multimove here --Lox (t,c) 11:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Azerbaijan/Azerbaidzhan?
Obviously, "Azerbaijan" is the correct transcription now (and should have been then), but during the Soviet period the usual spelling in English-language sources was the transliteration from the Cyrillic, "Azerbaidzhan". Should this article not therefore use the spelling "Azerbaidzhan" with reference to the S.S.R., so as not to be anachronistic? RandomCritic (talk) 01:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * welcome to the future! my 2 cents (that was a lot of money 11 years ago) :
 * the common spelling then may be worth mentioning in the article, but what should be used in the article is the common spelling now with regard to then.
 * An analogy: Romania in World War II is not called Rumania in World War II. At the time of the war, English sources preferred a U, but modern English historians of the war spell it with O.
 * In any case, Google Ngram Viewer suggests that DZH was never as common as J.
 * jnestorius(talk) 19:22, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Sumgait pogrom
The death toll is likely to be much higher than the figures stated in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.152.178.95 (talk) 13:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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Article editing
There are certain users who have been editing other SSR articles on Wikipedia for the past year, by stating that the soviet republics existed until the adoption of their new constitutions in the mid-1990s.

Azerbaijan SSR declared itself independent and changed its name to the Azerbaijan in 1991, and there are absolutely no arguments to back up that this state existed until 1995. That would be rewriting history. A new state is not just a matter of all-new constitutions, but also of its status and form of government. Afghanistan has had a lot of states since the abolishment of monarchy in the 1970s: the First Republic (1973–1978), Democratic Republic/Second Republic (1978–1992), the Islamic State (1992–2001), the Islamic Emirate (1996–2001), the Afghan Interim Administration (2001–2002), the Afghan Transitional Administration (2002–2004), and the present-day Islamic Republic since 2004. Yet they have only had four constitutions since then: 1976, 1987, 1990 and 2004. Is that to say that we should change these yearspans totally as well, so that most of these states didn't exist? The People's Republic of Hungary ended in 1989, but an all-new constitution was first made in 2011. Should we also say that the PR of Hungary existed until 2011, then? That would make little sense. Although Azerbaijan did not adopt a new constitution before 1995, there's no doubt about that it was a totally different state. It had a totally different form of government, its name was changed, it was an independent state (not a federated state), it was not a Soviet socialist republic. These factors are a lot more independent than the adoption of an all-new constitution. And although the constitution was not all-new, and formally the same constitution although heavily amended, it was amended to fit a new state and was not really the same constitution in practice. You'll have to agree that the 1991 transition is a lot more historically significant change in Azerbaijan's history than the adoption of a new constitution.  A.h. king  • Talk to me!  00:23, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Artsakh?
Why is there not even a mention of Artsakh or the associated dispute? 61.3.177.49 (talk) 11:37, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

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Move discussion in progress
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Padronização das páginas Sobre as Repúblicas Soviéticas
Em minha opinião para facilitar o entendimento deveríamos padronizar as páginas sobre as Repúblicas Soviéticas (RSS) já que muitas delas tem o cargo de Primeiro Secretário (líder de facto da República) junto com o cargo de Presidente do Presidium ("Presidente da República") algo que não acontece em outras páginas sobre as Repúblicas Soviéticas, por exemplo na página sobre a RSS Ucrâniana temos os Cargos de Primeiro Secretário do Partido Comunista Ucraniano separado do Cargo de Presidente do Presidium (Chefe de Estado). Tatigui (talk) 15:34, 1 February 2024 (UTC)