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Najmuddin Gotsinsky

Нажмудин Гоцинский
Counter-revolutionary forces Russian Empire 1859–1925 ✕ Executed by shooting

Avar religious leader and mufti of the North Caucasus who led anti-Bolshevik uprisings in Dagestan and Chechnya in 1918–1925

Born in 1859 to an aristocratic Avar landowning family in the village of Gotsob in Dagestan, he was an Islamic scholar. In May 1917 the congress of the Union of Highlanders of the North Caucasus made him mufti of the North Caucasus, and in August he was proclaimed Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya but gave up the title three days later. He fought the Bolsheviks in 1918, and in 1919 he collaborated with Denikin’s Volunteer Army as a lesser evil than the communists. In September 1920 he raised and led the Dagestan uprising, which was put down in May 1921. Moving to Chechnya to prepare another rising, he was arrested in September 1925 and shot that October.

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  • 1895–1903Naib of Koisubu, Avar District
  • 1917Mufti of the North Caucasus
  • 1917Proclaimed Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya; gave up the title three days later
  • 1920–1921Led the Dagestan uprising
  • 1924–1925Insurgency in Chechnya
  • 1925Arrested; executed in Rostov-on-Don

Andrievs Niedra

Andrievs Niedra
Counter-revolutionary forces Latvia Latvia 1871–1942 ○ Died

Pastor and writer who headed Latvia's pro-German government of 1919

"Not clever speeches or treaties but force decides a nation's fate," he declared at his 1924 treason trial.

A leading Latvian novelist and Lutheran pastor, he headed the pro-German government backed by von der Goltz after the Liepāja coup of 1919. His regime fell after Cēsis, he fled to Germany and, returning in 1924, was tried for treason and expelled.

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  • 1890–1899Studied theology at the University of Dorpat (Tartu)
  • 1903–1906Edited and published the journal Austrums in Cēsis
  • 1906–1918Lutheran pastor in the Matīši, Kalsnava and Vietalva parishes
  • 1917Co-founded the Latvian Farmers' Union, member of its board
  • 1919.05–06Prime Minister of the pro-German provisional government
  • 1924Convicted of treason, then expelled by presidential pardon
  • 1926–1930Pastor of a German congregation in Altstadt, East Prussia