page_title: February Uprising
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: February Uprising / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: Yerevan prision after Bolshevik slaughter. At the night of 17 February 1921, 50 people were brutally slaughtered at Yerevan prison.
context_page_description: The February Uprising was an anti-Bolshevik rebellion by the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation which started on February 13 and was suppressed on April 2, 1921 by the recapture of Yerevan by Bolshevik forces.
context_section_description: The "Salvation Committee of the Fatherland", ARF forces and many civilians retreated to Zangezur, where they joined Garegin Nzhdeh, where the Republic of Mountainous Armenia was established. It was finally taken over by Bolshevik forces in July 1921. The Armenian leaders escaped to Persia to avoid arrest and possible execution by the Bolsheviks.
  The reasons of the revolt were later discussed by the Bolshevik government and was decided to treat the population with more tolerance. After suppressing the February Uprising, Aleksandr Myasnikyan was appointed Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Armenia, the newly installed government of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
caption: Yerevan prison after Bolshevik slaughter. At the night of 17 February 1921, 50 people were brutally slaughtered at Yerevan prison.
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