While in Saint Petersburg, Kajaznuni joined the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, eventually becoming one of its most important figures.

[1] Kajaznuni was forced to leave the Caucasus in 1911 to avoid being called to testify at the trial of Armenian Revolutionary Federation members mounted by the Russian government in Saint Petersburg in January 1912.

[3] These setbacks spurred Akaki Chkhenkeli, the Georgian Menshevik leader of the Transcaucasian delegation, to unilaterally inform the Ottomans that he would accept the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk as the basis for negotiation, and thereby abandon Armenian claims to portions of Ottoman territory.

[5] This resulted in the Mensheviks and Muslims in the Seym proposing on 22 April 1918 to establish a Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic with reluctant endorsement from the increasingly isolated Armenian representatives.

[10] Before the Transcaucasus delegation had delivered a response, Ottoman forces invaded the Erivan Governorate, and on May 15 captured Alexandropol.

[10] Unable to negotiate anything more favorable than capitulation with the Ottomans, the Georgian leaders at the Batum talks arranged a side-deal with Germany to exchange German protection for access to Georgia's economic resources.

Kajaznuni was arrested after the Bolsheviks came to power in December 1920 but was freed during the February 1921 revolt against the Soviet regime.

[16][17][18][19] Before this event, every single Armenian political party in exile was opposed to Soviet Armenia's stance.

[22][n 4][23][n 5][24][n 6] A condensed version of the report was translated into English in 1955 by Matthew Aram Callender, and edited by Arthur Derounian.

[25] In the introduction written by Derounian, an anti-Dashnak journalist,[26] Kajaznuni is described as a "patriot" whose report was a "deep and incisive self-study" that is a "refutation" of the "grandiose, exaggerated and even outrageously false claims of the Dashnag leadership today".

From here on, and solely for the sake of brevity, we shall quote excerpts of his arguments which led to his decision as to why the Dashnagtzoutiun, in his opinion, should 'decisively end its existence' because 'there is no work for the Party'.

[35] Viken L. Attarian claims Perinçek's "discovery" is actually a forgery made by partisan Turkish historians to deny the fact of the Armenian genocide.

[37] Other historians who deny the Armenian genocide, such as Justin McCarthy and Michael Gunter, have also referred to Kajaznuni's report.

In fact, the volunteer regiments were formed in Russia, not the Ottoman Empire, and were composed mainly of Russian Armenians.