Nestor Apollonowitsch Lakoba
Nestor Apollonowitsch Lakoba ( Russian: Нестор Аполлонович Лакоба ; born May 1, 1893 in Lychny , Gudauta Rajon , Abkhazia , † December 28, 1936 in Tbilisi ) was an Abkhazian politician.
biography
Nestor Lakoba was born in Lychny, Abkhazia in 1893. Due to Bolshevik activities, he was persecuted early on by the tsarist secret service Okhrana , and in this way made the acquaintance of Josef Stalin . In the following years they worked together.
After the October Revolution , Lakoba first made a career as a follower of Lenin's . In the struggle for power during Lenin's illness and after his death, Lakoba was part of Stalin's Georgian supporters. In 1921 the Red Army occupied Georgia . Abkhazia became the Abkhazian SSR initially the status of an independent Soviet republic. Lakoba became head of the Communist Party of Abkhazia . In 1931, however, Abkhazia became part of the Georgian SSR .
Lakoba was on good terms with many influential officials in the Soviet Union . Nestor Lakoba and his brother Mikhail , who first held the function of People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later that of People's Commissar for Agriculture in Abkhazia, hosted Leon Trotsky and his wife for a few months in 1925 , who were in Abkhazia for health reasons.
In 1932, Lakoba told his friend, high-ranking Georgian official Sergo Ordzhonikidze , that his main rival, the Transcaucasian party leader Lavrenti Beria , had made negative comments about Ordzhonikidze. The hint led to an exchange of letters between Beria and Ordzhonikidze, during which Beria apologized in a letter dated December 18, 1932: “I admire you too much to say such things. I only ask you one thing: don't believe anyone! "
Due to Lakoba's popularity, Beria did not dare arrest him. Lakoba and his brother were invited to the Georgian Communist Party headquarters in Tbilisi. There they administered Lakoba at a dinner with Beria Gift , from which he died shortly afterwards. According to official reports, Lakoba died of a heart attack . His body was ceremonially transferred to Sukhumi with great public sympathy and buried in a state funeral . Nikita Khrushchev writes in his memoir that Lakoba's body was dug up again on Beria's instructions and burned as the remnant of an enemy of the people .
literature
- Robert Conquest : The Great Terror. A reassessment . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-19-507132-8 .
- Georgi M. Derluguian: Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus. A World-System Biography . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2005, ISBN 0-226-14282-5 .
- Amy W. Knight: Beria. Stalin's First Lieutenant . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1993, ISBN 0-691-01093-5 .
- Miklós Kun (tr. Miklós Bodóczky et al.): Stalin. An Unknown Portrait . Central European University Press, Budapest 2003, ISBN 963-9241-19-9 .
- Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and George Shriver: Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism . Columbia University Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-231-06350-4 .
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore : Stalin. The Court of the Red Tsar . Alfred A. Knopf , New York 2004 ISBN 1-4000-4230-5 ; Vintage, New York 2005, ISBN 1400076781 (paperback), p. 250.
- Ronald Grigor Suny: The Making of the Georgian Nation . Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1994, ISBN 0-253-20915-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Derluguian, page 235
- ^ Kun, page 47
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ ibid. , Trotsky.
- ↑ Knight, p. 51.
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ Medvedev, p. 624.
- ↑ ibid.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lakoba, Nestor Apollonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Лакоба, Нестор Аполлонович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abkhazian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lychny , Gudauta Raion , Abkhazia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1936 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |