Georgian SSR

Georgia, 1921–1991. Draft, not yet reviewed

The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of the republics of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1991. In 1921 the 11th Red Army invaded Georgia from the south, and on 25 February Tbilisi fell to the Bolsheviks. From 1922 to 1936 it was part of the Transcaucasian SFSR together with the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR. In 1989 the Georgian SSR declared its sovereignty over Soviet laws, and in 1990 the republic was renamed the Republic of Georgia.

Seat of power: Tbilisi

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• The exact number of Georgians executed during the Great Purges is not available, but some scholars suggest it varies from 30,000 to 60,000.
• While Georgia was part of the Transcaucasian SFSR, the province was led by Lavrentiy Beria, the first secretary of the Georgian Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia.
• In the Treaty of Kars of 13 October 1921 the Georgian SSR was forced to cede the Georgian-dominated Artvin Okrug to Turkey in exchange for keeping Adjara.

Picture

Tbilisi, on the banks of the Kura River, is the capital and largest city of Georgia.

Image: Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0, file

Sources

• Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Wikipedia)
• Georgian SSR (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

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