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Based on extensive original research, this book tells the
astonishing story of early Soviet Abkhazia and of its leader, the
charismatic Bolshevik revolutionary Nestor Lakoba. A tiny republic
on the Black Sea coast of the USSR, Abkhazia became a vacation
retreat for Party leaders and a major producer of tobacco. Nestor
Lakoba became the unquestioned boss of Abkhazia, constructing a
powerful local ethnic "machine" that became an influential
component of Soviet patronage politics, provoking along the way
accusations of nepotism, corruption, blood feuds, embezzlement,
racketeering, and extrajudicial murder on a scale that shocked even
hardened Communist Party investigators. Lakoba and his group faced
a series of trials, investigatory commissions, and tribunals over
allegations of malfeasance, yet they were repeatedly able to
convince their powerful patrons of their irreplaceability, until at
last they were destroyed through a public show trial during the
peak of the Stalinist Terror. Through the prism of tiny Abkhazia,
this book provides invaluable insights into the nature of the early
Soviet system and the governance of Soviet national republics.
Based on extensive original research, this book tells the
astonishing story of early Soviet Abkhazia and of its leader, the
charismatic Bolshevik revolutionary Nestor Lakoba. A tiny republic
on the Black Sea coast of the USSR, Abkhazia became a vacation
retreat for Party leaders and a major producer of tobacco. Nestor
Lakoba became the unquestioned boss of Abkhazia, constructing a
powerful local ethnic "machine" that became an influential
component of Soviet patronage politics, provoking along the way
accusations of nepotism, corruption, blood feuds, embezzlement,
racketeering, and extrajudicial murder on a scale that shocked even
hardened Communist Party investigators. Lakoba and his group faced
a series of trials, investigatory commissions, and tribunals over
allegations of malfeasance, yet they were repeatedly able to
convince their powerful patrons of their irreplaceability, until at
last they were destroyed through a public show trial during the
peak of the Stalinist Terror. Through the prism of tiny Abkhazia,
this book provides invaluable insights into the nature of the early
Soviet system and the governance of Soviet national republics.
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