[1] At the end of 1904, the Baku committee of the Russian Social Democratic Party created the Hummet in order to attract Muslim workers.
Prominent Hummet politicians included Mammed Amin Rasulzade (until 1913), Meshadi Azizbekov, Prokopius Dzhaparidze, Sultan Medjid Efendiev, Zeynal Zeynalov and Nariman Narimanov.
A series of arrests in 1911 weakened the activities of the party, but after the February Revolution, the Hummet renewed its operations.
[3] Other sources, on the contrary, report that Hummet party members were very critical of the conduct of the events.
This is confirmed by the words of Sultan Majid Efendiyev who wrote: This article about an Azerbaijani political party is a stub.