The National Interest
I slept badly in the Hotel Ritsa in Abkhazia. I had an unsettling dream in which I walked through an old house with an elderly Stalin, muttering malevolently to himself. In the morning, wondering who had disturbed my sleep, I had a long list of suspects from the other world.
Read more: The Ghosts of Abkhazia, by Thomas de Waal
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Thomas de Waal is a Senior Associate for the Caucasus at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
The Caucasus is often depicted as a region of peoples locked in enduring and invariant nationalist enmity. The reality is more complex and therefore more hopeful, says Thomas de Waal.
Central Asian Survey
To cite this Article Clogg, Rachel (1995) 'Documents from the KGB archive in Sukhum. Abkhazia in the Stalin years', Central Asian Survey, 14: 1, 155 — 189
Read more: Documents from the KGB archive in Sukhum. Abkhazia in the Stalin years, by Rachel Clogg
176,000 archival documents in Abkhazia, before the war, 168,000 were destroyed.
Central Asian Survey
To cite this Article Hewitt, B. G. (1996) 'Appendix to documents from the KGB archive in Sukhum. Abkhazia in the Stalin years', Central Asian Survey, 15: 2, 259 — 297
Read more: Appendix to Documents from the KGB archive in Sukhum. Abkhazia in the Stalin years, Translation by...
CA&CC Press® AB / Central Asia & Central Caucasus Press
(ИЗ ИСТОРИИ ВОЗНИКНОВЕНИЯ КАВКАЗСКОЙ ДИАСПОРЫ (АБХАЗЫ И АДЫГИ))
Gudisa Vardania, the State University of Abkhazia, 2007
ABSTRACT
The author takes a look into the past in order to shed light on some of the still painful issues relating to the emergence of the Abkhaz-Adighe element of the Caucasian diaspora, the ups and downs of the Caucasian War Russia waged in the Caucasus for many years, the deportation of huge numbers of local people, and their arduous integration into Ottoman Turkey.
Read more: The Caucasian Diaspora - Abkhaz and Adighes: Episodes from the past, by Gudisa Vardania
Stephen Shenfield | Special to Abkhaz World
Background
In the period 1922—1930 Abkhazia enjoyed the status of a union republic associated with but not subordinate to Georgia. On February 19, 1931 the Sixth All-Georgian Congress of Soviets decided, presumably with Stalin’s consent, to deprive Abkhazia of this status and incorporate it into Georgia as an autonomous republic. In several Abkhaz villages there were mass protests against this change as well as against forced collectivization, then underway across the Soviet Union. Georgian leader Lavrenti Beria mobilized a security police detachment to suppress the protests, but Nestor Lakoba, the first leader of Soviet Abkhazia, managed to defuse the confrontation and avert bloodshed.
Read more: The Stalin-Beria Terror in Abkhazia, 1936-1953, by Stephen D. Shenfield
