Edited sentence: Also, in an letter to Seyyed Hassan Taqizadeh, an important Iranian intellectual of the early 20th century, Rasulzade declared his eagerness to do "whatever is in his power to avoid any further discontent among Iranians".Although many Russian scholars protested against changing the name from Arran to Azerbaijan, siting that the name change was politically motivated, the Bolsheviks, who had taken power in Russia, re-conquered the Caucasus and kept the name Azerbaijan, in hopes of later adding north western Iran into the Soviet Union.Azerbaijan was historically the name of north west Iran, which still goes by the name.Historically, the territory of the ADR was called Shirvan, Armenia, Georgia, or Arran, a term thought to be derive from the name of the leader who founded the Albanian kingdom in the Caucasus.Mohammad Amin Rasulzade, the leader of Musavat party, who lived in exile after the Soviet invasion and occupation of Azerbaijan Republic, later admitted a mistake in choosing the name Azerbaijan for the state.Rasulzade admitted in an article that he wrote that Albania (referring to Caucasian Azerbaijan) was different than Azerbaijan (referring to Iranian Azerbaijan).The name they chose for their new nation was Azerbaijan, although the name change was protested against by both Russian and Iranian scholars, in hopes of claiming north western Iran.The republic did not last long as the Armenians and Georgians split to create their own independent states.With the collapse of Tsarist Russia in 1917, Turkish Democratic Musavat Party, which had pan Turkic elements within it, along with other groups, came together to form the Transcaucasian Federative Republic.With this break up, the Turkish Democratic Musavat Party met in Tbilisi on May 27,1918 to create their own state