August Uprising | |||||||
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Georgian rebels known as "Oath of Fealty" (შეფიცულები) under the command of Kakutsa Cholokashvili |
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Belligerents | |||||||
Committee for the Independence of Georgia other Georgian guerrilla groups |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Joseph Stalin Sergo Orjonikidze Semyon Pugachov Solomon Mogilevsky Levan Gogoberidze Lavrenti Beria Shalva Tsereteli |
Spiridon Chavchavadze Kakutsa Cholokashvili Iason Javakhishvili Mikheil Javakhishvili Kote Andronikashvili Mikheil Lashkarashvili Svimon Tsereteli Eko Tsereteli Sergo Matitaishvili Avtandil Urushadze Nikoloz Ketskhoveli Evgen Gvaladze |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
unknown, estimates high | 3,000–3,500 killed in fighting; 10,000–12,000 executed |
The August Uprising (Georgian: აგვისტოს აჯანყება, agvistos adjanq’eba) was an unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic from late August to early September 1924.
Aimed at restoring the independence of Georgia from the Soviet Union, the uprising was led by the Committee for Independence of Georgia, a bloc of anti-Soviet political organizations chaired by the Georgian Social Democratic (Menshevik) Party. It was the culmination of a three-year struggle against the Bolshevik regime that the Soviet Russia’s Red Army established during a military campaign against the Democratic Republic of Georgia in early 1921. The Red Army and Cheka troops, under orders of Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze, suppressed the insurrection, and instigated a wave of mass repressions that killed several thousand Georgia citizens. The August uprising was one of the last major rebellions against the early Soviet government, and its defeat marked the final establishment of the Soviet rule in Georgia.