Levan Gogoberidze | |
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ლევან ღოღობერიძე | |
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| First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party | |
| In office 6 May 1930 – 19 November 1930 | |
| Preceded by | Mikheil Kakhiani |
| Succeeded by | Samson Mamulia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 January 1896 Pridonaan-Jikhaishi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 March 1937 (aged 41) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Georgian, Soviet |
| Political party | Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1916–1936) |
| Spouse | Nutsa Khutsishvili |
| Children | Lana Gogoberidze |
| Education | Institute of Red Professors |
| Alma mater | Petrograd Polytechnic University |
Levan Davidovich Gogoberidze (Georgian: ლევან ღოღობერიძე; Russian: Леван Давидович Гогоберидзе; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1878 – 21 March 1937) was a Soviet and Georgian Bolshevik and politician. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from 6 May to 19 November 1930.[1]
Levan Davidovich Gogoberidze was born on 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1878 in Pridonaan-Jikhaishi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire to the family of a noble.[2] He graduated Petrograd Polytechnic University[3] before joining the Communist Party in 1916 and after the February and later October Revolution he was made deputy chairman of his local soviet in Dzhikhaishi near Trapezund.[2]
In May 1919 he was sent along with Anastas Mikoyan, to Baku in the recently independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic as one of the leaders of the Bolshevik Faction in a Worker's Strike against the Musavat Party. After the strike Gogoberidze, Mikoyan and other leaders were arrested by the authorities and imprisoned together. After escaping imprisonment alongside Mikoyan,[4] Gogoberidze was seriously wounded in a shooting that took place in a café in central Baku that killed the two younger men he was eating dinner with. The exact cause of the shooting is still a matter of debate but contemporary leftist reports alleged it was an assassination plot by the Musavat Party.[5]
After recovering from the attack he returned to Tbilisi, and began working through the ranks of Georgian Soviet leadership, to eventually be named First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party in 6 May 1930. He held the position for a little under 200 days, before being replaced as First Secretary by Samson Mamulia because of associations he had with Vissarion Lominadze. In 1930 Lominadze made several statements at the 16th Party Congress and elsewhere that were widely condemned as too leftist by Party Leadership.[6] After he was removed from office, he went to Moscow to study at the Institute of Red Professors from 1930 to 1934. After graduating he worked as a party leader in Eisk and Rostov-on-Don. On 14 December 1936 he was arrested,[3] and consequently on 21 March 1937 he was shot in Tbilisi[1] as part of the Great Purge.[7] His reputation was later rehabilitated along with other victims of the Great Purge after Stalin's death.[2]
His wife Nutsa was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker and is thought to be the first Georgian woman to direct a feature film.[8] His daughter Lana Gogoberidze, was also a notable Georgian director [9] and had a political career serving in the Parliament of Georgia, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and later as the Georgian ambassador to France.[10]
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