Mingrelian Affair

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The Mingrelian Affair was a series of fabricated criminal cases in early 1950s Soviet Georgia, orchestrated under Stalin to purge and weaken Lavrentiy Beria’s Mingrelian political base.

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instanceOf fabricated criminal case
political purge
political repression campaign
affectedGroup Mingrelian members of the Georgian Communist Party
aimedToWeaken Lavrentiy Beria
allegedCrimes corruption
nationalism
treason
chargesCharacter fabricated
chronologicalRelation occurred shortly before Stalin’s death in 1953
country Soviet Union
endTime 1952
ethnicDimension involved Mingrelian subgroup of Georgians
hasEthnicContext Mingrelian
linked to: Mingrelian language
hasOriginalNameLanguage Georgian
Russian
historicalContext late Stalin period
prelude to post-Stalin power struggle
initiatedBy Joseph Stalin
languageOfName English
location Georgia
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
mainTargets Georgian Communist Party leadership
Mingrelian Communist officials
orchestratedBy Joseph Stalin
partOf Stalinist repressions
politicalMotivation intra-party power struggle
weakening Beria’s influence in Georgia
relatedTo Georgian Communist Party
Joseph Stalin
Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet political purges
resultedIn arrests of Georgian officials
political marginalization of Mingrelian cadres
purges within the Georgian Communist Party
significance example of Stalin’s use of ethnic and regional politics
illustrates fabricated criminal cases for political ends
startTime 1951
subjectOf historical studies on Soviet Georgia
research on Lavrentiy Beria’s career
targetedPoliticalBaseOf Lavrentiy Beria
timePeriod early 1950s

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