TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blauvelt,Timothy K.
TI  - Clientalism and nationality in an early Soviet fiefdom: the trials of Nestor Lakoba 
T2  - Imperial transformations: Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet history
SN  - 9781032010007
AV  - DK679.A25 B58 2021
U1  - 947.58 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Lakoba, N. A.
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Georgia (Republic)
KW  - Abkhazia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Communists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Trials (Misconduct in office)
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Abkhazia (Georgia)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - აფხაზეთი(საქართველო) -ისტორია - მე-20 ს
KW  - ნესტორ ლაკობა, საბჭოთა აფხაზეთის ლიდერი  - ცხოვრება და მიღვაწეობა
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -