May Uprising

The May Uprising (Armenian: Մայիսյան ապստամբություն, romanized: Mayisyan apstambutyun) was a failed coup d'état by the Armenian Bolsheviks that started in Gyumri on May 10, 1920. It was eventually suppressed by the Armenian government on May 14 and its leaders executed or exiled. Although the revolt failed, Armenia was taken over by the Soviets after the 11th Army of Soviet Russia invaded the country in November 1920 and the Turkish Nationalists occupied the western half of the country. The revolt and its executed leaders were praised during the Soviet period from 1920 until the late 1980s, when the Karabakh movement began and anti-Soviet sentiment rose in Armenia. The revolt remains a controversial topic in Armenia.