The Soviet Settlement §

Stalin's borders, the 1937 purges, and the slow demographic engineering of Nakhichevan and the NKAO.

The Soviet settlement runs from the 1922 formation of the Transcaucasian SFSR through Stalin's death in 1953. NKAO is formalised inside Azerbaijani SSR (1923); the 1936 Soviet Constitution dissolves the Transcaucasian Federation into three union republics; the 1937 purges decimate the cultural and political leadership of all three; the 1948-53 deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia and the parallel Armenian repatriation programme of 1946-48 are the principal demographic acts.