Blauvelt, Timothy K. <br/><br/>
Clientalism and nationality in an early Soviet fiefdom :  the trials of Nestor Lakoba / 
 Trials of Nestor Lakoba 
Timothy Blauvelt. 
 - London ;  New York, NY :  Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,  2021. 
 - xiv, 248 p. 
 - Imperial transformations: Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>"Kiaraz" and the Formation of an Early Soviet Leadership -- Cohort -- Consolidating Leadership in Soviet Abkhazia -- The "Rif Revolt" -- Patronage, Nationality, and Tsebelda Tobacco -- The Mirzabekyan Commission - 1928- -- The Deluge - 1929- -- The 1930s and Changing Circumstances -- Lakoba's Final Trial -- Identity, Contestation and Memory. 
<br/><br/> "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, engaging along the way in 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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781032010007 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020055248 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lakoba, N. A. 1893-1936. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political corruption--History--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia--20th century.<br/>Communists--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia--Biography.<br/>Trials (Misconduct in office)--History--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia--20th century.<br/>Ethnicity--Political aspects--History--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Abkhazia (Georgia)--Politics and government--20th century.<br/>Abkhazia (Georgia)--History--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>აფხაზეთი(საქართველო) -ისტორია - მე-20 ს. ნესტორ ლაკობა, საბჭოთა აფხაზეთის ლიდერი  - ცხოვრება და მიღვაწეობა 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DK679.A25  / B58 2021 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>947.58 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>94(479.224)