"MAMED EMIN RASULZADE POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN EMIGRATION BEFORE THE BEGINNING AND DURING WORLD WAR II"

The flag once raised will never fall! Mammed Amin Rasulzade

Main periods and places of emigration: 1908-1911 – Iranian period Total number of Rasulzade publications on the revolutionary struggle in Azerbaijan and Tabriz exceeded 250 1910 – organized Iranian Democratic Party Edited the newspaper “New Iran” Creation of political party “Musavat”

1911-1913 – Istanbul. Turkism – consolidation of all Turkish peoples to the common Turkic nation 1913 – Azerbaijan. Leader of “Musavat” party

1920 – fall of ADR and mass emigrations 1922 – Turkey. 1923 – “Azerbaijani Republic”, “New Caucasus” 1923 – 1924 – Azerbaijani National Centre 1928 – Warszawa, emigrant organization “Prometheus”

1931 - period of European emigration Primarily in Germany, France and Poland. 1942 – Azerbaijan National Committee in Berlin After World War II – went back to Turkey 1949 founded the “Azerbaijan Cultural Circle” 1951 - an American Committee for Freedom for the Peoples of the USSR

1952 - a Common Caucasian conference organized in Munich 1953 - American Committee created radio “Freedom”

Major works The lights in a darkness. (play, 1908, not published) The critic of the party of Etidaliyyun. Teheran, 1910 (in Persian) The happiness of the mankind (Saadet-e basher). Ardebil, 1911 (in Persian) An unhappy life (Aci bir hayat). Baku, 1912 Two views on the form of government (together with Akhmet Salikov). Moscow, 1917 Role of Musavat in the formation of Azerbaijan. Baku, 1920 Azerbaijan Republic: characteristics, formation and contemporary state. Istanbul, 1923

Major works Sayavush of our century. Istanbul, 1925 Caucasian Turks. Istanbul, 1928 Panturanism in regard with the Caucasian problem. Paris, 1930 (in Russian), reprinted with an English introduction in 1985 in Oxford About Azerbaijani Republic. Berlin, 1933 (in German) Azerbaijan problem. Berlin, 1938 (in German)

Major works Contemporary Azerbaijani history. Ankara, 1951 Great Azerbaijani poet Nizami. Ankara, 1951 National Awareness. Ankara, 1978 Azerbaijan’s struggle for independence. Warsaw, 1939 (in Polish) Azerbaijan’s cultural traditions. Ankara, 1949 Contemporary Azerbaijani literature, 1950

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