Fate of Scientists and Artists in the Period of the Red and Big Terror
Fate of Scientists and Artists in the Period of the Red and Big Terror

Summary/Abstract: Whatever is the nature of the war there are two parties engaged in conflict. Terror is much more terrible, because in this case there are no opposing sides: the “powers that be” methodically destroy “undesirable elements”. In Georgia, the intelligentsia was gradually eliminated: writers, poets, scientists, public figures were sent to camps, shot, evicted by families, forced to write false denunciations. Thus, analyzing the develop-ment of science and culture in Georgia between the two world wars, we can conclude that the Sovietization of Georgia and the regime of "great terror" were characterized by such a large number of victims among the Georgian intelligentsia and talented youth that the problems of science were relegated to the urgent need survive.

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