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{{Short description|Russian Civil War}}
{{Infobox country
|conventional_long_name = Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan
|native_name = 
|common_name = Mughan 
|status = 
|s1 =  Mughan Soviet Republic
|flag_s1 = Red flag.svg
|image_flag = Flag of Russia.svg
|image_coat = 
|image_map = 
|image_map_caption = 
|capital = Goytepe
|common_languages = [[Social:Russian language|Russian]]
|government_type = Military dictatorship
|title_leader = Leader
|leader1 = T. P. Sukhorukov
|year_leader1 = 1918
|legislature = 
|era = Russian Civil War
|date_start = 1 August
|year_start = 1918
|event1 = Reorganized as Mughan Territorial Administration
|date_event1 = December 1918
|date_end = 25 April
|year_end = 1919
}}
The '''Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan''' was a British-controlled anti-communist short-lived state founded in the Lankaran region on 1 August 1918. The Mughan government did not support independence of [[Place:Azerbaijan|Azerbaijan]] and it was led by white Russian colonel T. P. Sukhorukov who acted under the protection of the British occupation of [[Place:Baku|Baku]]. Mughan declared to be an autonomous part of "single and indivisible Russia." In December 1918, it was reorganized as ''Mughan Territorial Administration''. On 25 April 1919 a violent protest organized by Talysh workers of pro-Bolshevik orientation exploded in Lankaran and deposed the Mughan Territorial Administration. On 15 May the Extraordinary Congress of the "Councils of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies" of Lankaran district proclaimed the ''Mughan Soviet Republic''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Smele|first1=Jonathan D.|title=Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926|date=2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442252813|page=771}}</ref>

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