Yefrem Alexeyevich Eschba

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Yefrem Eschba (Abkhaz postage stamp, 1997)

Yefrem Alexejewitsch Eschba ( Russian Ефрем Алексеевич Эшба ; * 7 March July / 19 March  1893 greg. In Agubedia, Tkuarshal district ; † April 16, 1939 in Kommunarka ) was an Abkhazian - Soviet communist .

Life

Eschba, son of a nobleman, studied at Moscow University from 1913 to 1916 without a degree. In 1914 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Bolsheviks) .

After the October Revolution Eshba Parrteibezirksvorsitzender and Chairman of was Soviet in Sukhumi . He also helped found the Soviet Mountain Republic . 1918–1922 he was vice chairman of the central office of the communist organization of the peoples of the east at the central committee of the CPSU . To this end, he was chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of Abkhazia (1921-1922), chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Abkhazia (1922), People's Commissar for Justice of the Georgian SSR (1922) and Third Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee of Georgia . In 1924 he was a delegate to the XIII. Party congress of the CPSU. In 1925 he became first secretary of the Chechen organizational office of the CPSU (until 1927).

From 1923 Eschba supported the left opposition in the CPSU. In 1927 he was expelled from the party for participating in the Trotskyist opposition, but reinstated in 1928 after admitting his errors.

During the Stalinist purges , he was arrested on April 11, 1936 on April 15, 1939 sentenced to death and on April 16, Kommunarka shot . In 1956 he was rehabilitated.

Web links

Commons : Jefrem Eschba  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Timothy K. Blauvelt: The Establishment of Soviet Power in Abkhazia: Ethnicity, Contestation and Clientalism in the Revolutionary Periphery . In: Revolutionary Russia . tape 27 , no. 1 , 2014, p. 22-46 .
  2. a b c d Eshba Ephraim A. (The Party leader) (accessed September 2, 2017).
  3. a b Эшба Ефрем Алексеевич (accessed on September 2, 2017).
  4. Дзидзария Г. А .: Ефрем Эшба . Moscow 1967.