The Great Terror in Georgian SSR: Documents and Reflection

Владимир Луарсабишвили, Омаp Тушурашвили

Abstract


In the article we describe the organization and the realization of the Great terror in Georgian SSR. Based on the materials kept in the Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the detailed mechanism and the method of accomplishing of terror is evaluated. Of particular historical interests are the evidences received from the former NKVD official, repressed on the final stage of the terror. In the end the final conclusions are presented.


Keywords


great terror; Georgian SSR; NKVD; mechanism and the method of terror

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/f.2015.70.29
Date of publication: 2017-06-07 13:39:42
Date of submission: 2017-02-13 20:18:29


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