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1 Life and career  



1.1  Pre-WW2  





1.2  Friendship with Stalin  







2 Resignation and later life  





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Akaki Mgeladze
აკაკი მგელაძე (Georgian)
Акакий Мгеладзе (Russian)
First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party
In office
2 April 1952 – 14 April 1953
Preceded byKandid Charkviani
Succeeded byAleksandre Mirtskhulava
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Abkhazia
In office
February 1943 – November 1951
Preceded byMikhail Baramiya
Succeeded byShota Getia
Personal details
Born1910
Melekeduri, Ozurgeti uezd, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1980 (aged 69–70)
Ozurgeti, Guria, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

Akaki Mgeladze (Georgian: აკაკი მგელაძე; Russian: Ака́кий Ива́нович Мгела́дзе; 1910–1980) was a Soviet politician. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from 1952 to 1953, and before that was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Abkhazia from 1943 until 1951, as well as previously leading both the Georgian and Abkhazian Komsomol and Gruzneft.

Life and career[edit]

Pre-WW2[edit]

Born in the Guria region of Georgia, Mgeladze had grown up in Abkhazia and was serving with the military on the Transcaucasus Front when he was appointed head of the Communist Party of Abkhazia by Joseph Stalin. Under Mgeladze, Georgian was made the language of instruction in Abkhazia, replacing Abkhaz and Russian at the start of the 1945–46 academic year.

Friendship with Stalin[edit]

After the Second World War, Mgeladze became a confidant of Stalin, who nicknamed him “Comrade Wolf”.[1] He made a declaration that Abkhazia would produce lemons for the entirety of the Soviet Union after Stalin repeatedly showed him lemon trees.[2] Using his influence with Stalin, Mgeladze manoeuvred against head of the Ministry of State Security Lavrentiy Beria, denouncing his corruption and that of Stalin’s other confidant Kandid Charkviani, who was an ally of Beria.[3] Mgeladze succeeded in convincing Stalin to turn against Charkviani and strengthened his distrust of Beria.[4] In March 1952 Mgeladze was appointed First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party by Beria, replacing Charkviani.[5]

Resignation and later life[edit]

He held his position until he was forced out by Beria in April 1953, after Stalin's death. Forced to admit that he took bribes while head of the Communist Party of Abkhazia, Mgeladze was only able to remain a Party member because his successor in Georgia, Aleksandre Mirtskhulava, refused to expel him. After that he served as the chairman of the Bibnisi collective farm, located in the Kareli Municipality.

Mgeladze wrote a memoir, Сталин Каким я его знал: Страницы недавнего прошлого (Stalin As I Knew Him: Pages of the Recent Past), and died in 1980. For his efforts Mgeladze was awarded two Orders of Lenin, as well as the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War, two Orders of the Badge of Honour, and others.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Simon Sebag Montefiore (July 10, 2003). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Vintage Books. p. 616. ISBN 1400076781.
  • ^ Simon Sebag Montefiore (July 10, 2003). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Vintage Books. p. 525. ISBN 1400076781.
  • ^ Simon Sebag Montefiore (July 10, 2003). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Vintage Books. p. 624. ISBN 1400076781.
  • ^ Simon Sebag Montefiore (July 10, 2003). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Vintage Books. p. 631. ISBN 1400076781.
  • ^ Simon Sebag Montefiore (July 10, 2003). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Vintage Books. p. 633. ISBN 1400076781.
  • Sources[edit]

    Party political offices
    Preceded by

    Candide Charkviani

    First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party
    1952–1953
    Succeeded by

    Aleksandre Mirtskhulava

    Preceded by

    Mikhail Baramiya

    First Secretary of the Abkhazian Communist Party
    1943–1951
    Succeeded by

    Shota Getia


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