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Soviet Georgia: Socialism, Stalin, and the Collapse of the USSR

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The Bolsheviks and the Caucasus

Stalin is forged in this incredible, you know, revolutionary time in the Caucasus. He's doing a lot of work like he starts off with the Rothschild refinery in Batumi who organizes workers there. You know, huge confrontation. Lots of workers die. And so Stalin survives this very violent time and especially because he, it's funny because at the beginning,you know, the mopenship, the Bolshevik men should be split is not really happening in Georgia.

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