Political Stance
Narimanov was an ardent Bolshevik but he was also a moderate Azeri nationalist and always put the interests of the Azerbaijan SSR before everything else, even at his own risk (he died in Moscow under suspicious circumstances). He is viewed in retrospect as a forerunner of "National Communism." Narimanov was one of the most popular and charismatic leaders of his country; he was sometimes called "the Lenin of the East".
Leon Trotsky have called his death as the second biggest loss for the Eastern world after Lenin. Sergo Ordzhonikidze have described Narimanov as "the greatest representative of our party in the East.".
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