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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

Author(s): Marine Aroshidze, Nino Aroshidze
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Special Historiographies:, History of Communism, Georgian literature
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: Red Terror; Great Terror; Sovetisation; Georgia; fate of intelligentsia; massive repressions; deportations.

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.

  • Issue Year: 32/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 157-176
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English
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