Efrem Eshba
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Efrem Alekseevich Eshba (Russian: Ефрем Алексеевич Эшба; 19 March [O.S. 7 March] 1893 – 16 April, 1939) was an Abkhaz and Soviet statesman and leading Bolshevik in Abkhazia in the 1920s.
Efrem Eshba | |
|---|---|
| Ефрем Алексеевич Эшба (Russian) | |
 Eshba on a 1997 Abkhaz stamp | |
| Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Abkhazia | |
| In office February 1921 – February 1922 | |
| Preceded by | Post Created |
| Succeeded by | Post Abolished |
| Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the SSR Abkhazia | |
| In office February 1922 – 1922 | |
| Preceded by | Post Created |
| Succeeded by | Samson Kartoziya |
| People's Commissar of Justice of the Georgian SSR | |
| In office October 1922 – December 1922 | |
| Preceded by | Sergey Kavtaradze |
| Succeeded by | Yakov Vardzieli |
| First Secretary of the Chechen Autonomous Oblast | |
| In office January 1926 – August 1927 | |
| Preceded by | Magomed Eneyev |
| Succeeded by | Gurgen Bulat |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 March 1893 |
| Died | 16 April 1939 (aged 46) |
| Citizenship | Soviet |
| Party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Life
Education
Eshba graduated from the Sukhumi Mountain School and the Tiflis Gymnasium. He studied law at Moscow University. During his studies at the university, he became a Marxist, joining the Bolsheviks in 1914.[1]
Political career
He was elected Chairman of the Sukhum District Committee of the RSDLP(B) in 1917, and was a Special Commissioner in the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the RSFSR.
In 1921 he wrote to the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to oppose an merger of Abkhazia with Georgia.
Arrest and execution
In 1936, he was arrested by the NKVD, and was sentenced to death in 1939. He was executed, and posthumously rehabilitated during the process of destalinization.[2]