Mingrelian Affair
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The Mingrelian Affair was a series of fabricated criminal cases in early 1950s Soviet Georgia, orchestrated under Stalin to purge and weaken Lavrentiy Beria’s Mingrelian political base.
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fabricated criminal case
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political purge ⓘ political repression campaign ⓘ |
| affectedGroup | Mingrelian members of the Georgian Communist Party ⓘ |
| aimedToWeaken | Lavrentiy Beria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegedCrimes |
corruption
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nationalism ⓘ treason ⓘ |
| chargesCharacter | fabricated ⓘ |
| chronologicalRelation | occurred shortly before Stalin’s death in 1953 ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| endTime | 1952 ⓘ |
| ethnicDimension | involved Mingrelian subgroup of Georgians ⓘ |
| hasEthnicContext | Mingrelian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginalNameLanguage |
Georgian
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
late Stalin period
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prelude to post-Stalin power struggle ⓘ |
| initiatedBy | Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| location |
Georgia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTargets |
Georgian Communist Party leadership
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mingrelian Communist officials ⓘ |
| orchestratedBy | Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Stalinist repressions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalMotivation |
intra-party power struggle
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weakening Beria’s influence in Georgia ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Georgian Communist Party
NERFINISHED
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Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ Lavrentiy Beria NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet political purges ⓘ |
| resultedIn |
arrests of Georgian officials
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political marginalization of Mingrelian cadres ⓘ purges within the Georgian Communist Party ⓘ |
| significance |
example of Stalin’s use of ethnic and regional politics
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illustrates fabricated criminal cases for political ends ⓘ |
| startTime | 1951 ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
historical studies on Soviet Georgia
ⓘ
research on Lavrentiy Beria’s career ⓘ |
| targetedPoliticalBaseOf | Lavrentiy Beria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 1950s ⓘ |
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