membership, most recruited between 1917 and 1919, comprised the poorly-educated Muslims underclass of Baku.

Early Musavat under Rasulzade leadership

After the Amnesty Act of 1913 dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, Mahammad Amin Rasulzade returned to Azerbaijan and undertook party leadership. Despite the party still being secret, Rasulzade managed to found newspaper the newspaper Achig Soz (1915–1918), in which Musavat's aims and goals,

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