Iosseb Iremashvili

Iosseb Iremashvili ( Georgian იოსებ ირემაშვილი , Russian Иосиф Георгиевич Иремашвили ; * 1878 , † 1944 ) was a Georgian schoolmate of Joseph Stalin .

Life

Both grew up in Gori and then attended the seminary in Tbilisi . Iremashvili became a teacher and later taught Stalin's first son Yakov , who grew up with relatives in Georgia after his mother's death.

Iremashvili belonged to the Mensheviks and opposed the invasion of Georgia by the Red Army . After the Bolsheviks came to power in Georgia, he was imprisoned and expelled from the Soviet Union together with other Georgian politicians in 1922 . He received political asylum in Germany .

Services

In Berlin in 1932 he published his memoirs under the title Stalin and the Tragedy of Georgia . The book is an interesting source because it was not written under Stalin's realm.

Iremashvili wrote that Stalin was not forced to resign from the seminary in Tbilisi because of revolutionary activities, but rather more or less voluntarily ended his training as a priest after conflicts with the faculty. He also reported that not only Stalin's mother, Ekaterine Geladze , but also his father, Bessarion Dschugashvili , was Ossete , and his description differs in many details from the presentation of the biographies written in Stalin's sphere of influence.

Stalin's Ossetian ancestry is relevant because it can be seen as a key to suppressing the anti-Soviet opposition in the Georgian SSR in the 1920s. In fact, however, it is clear that the Jugashvili family was Georgized with Stalin in the third generation. Many historians rate the politics of Stalin and Beria as downright Georgian-nationalist, especially with regard to the dissolution of the independent Abkhazian SSR and its incorporation into Georgia as ASSR in 1931/36. Unlike most social democratic Georgians, Stalin and Ordzhonikidze did not belong to the Mensheviks .

Stalin had been expelled from the Georgian Social Democratic Party because of his alleged activity for the Okhrana , which was already suspected at the time, and was also rejected because of his assassinations and kidnappings with Krassin and Litvinov , which brought the Social Democrats into disrepute. The justification of these actions by Lenin , who saw them as an important financing instrument, was a major cause of the split in the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party .

Georgian Mensheviks like Iremashvili, on the other hand, preferred funding through membership fees and rejected violent actions that made the Social Democrats unpopular among the population. The details and background of the processes in the years from 1898 to 1917 are still partly unclear today.

Fonts

• Stalin and the tragedy of Georgia . Berlin W 50, Passauer Str. 27 Self-published , 1932. By Dr. Joseph Iremashvili.

Web links

• Excerpt from Iremashvili's biography of Stalin