THE MARXIST-LENINIST RESEARCH BUREAU
Report No. 12
THE YENUKIDZE CASE (1935-37)

    Avel Yenukidze* was Secretary of the Presidium of the Soviet Central Executuve, Committee i.e., head of the Soviet civil service, from 1918 to 1935. This post put him     Yenukidze had published in 1930 a historical study entitled 'Our Illegal Printing Shops in the Caucasus'.

    On 16 January 1935, in an article in 'Pravda',

    Yenukidze's article:     In July 1935 Lavrenti Beria* delivered in Tiflis a series of lectures entitled 'On the History of the Bolshevik Organisation in Transcaucasia' which were published in book form. Beria claimed that Yenukidze had:     Beria's book:     Stalin replied advising Yenukidze to accept that his book contained errors, and merely complain that Beria's criticism was 'too harsh':     However:     Early in 1935 it was announced that there had been discovered in the Kremlin     On 3 March 1935:     At this time he was:     since his change of position was stated to be due to:     The charge against Yenukidze:     But Yenukidze's:     and on 7 June 1935,     after being denounced for:     On 13 June 1935, 'Pravda' reported Khrushchev as telling the Moscow Party aktiv:     On 24 June 1935, Beria publicly denounced Yenukidze:     Yenukidze was arrested in:     On 29 December 1937, 'Pravda' reported that eight people, including  Orakhelashvili and Yenukidze:     It was charged that Orakhelashvili:     In March 1938, the Yenukidze case was referred to several times in the testimony given at the 1938 treason trial.
    For example, defendant Aleksey Rykov testified:     Defendant Nikolay Bukharin* testified:     The defendant Pavel Bulanov testified:     In May 1962, Yenukidze was 'rehabilitated' by the revisionist authorities.

    The alleged 'miscarriage of justice' in the Yenukidze case was attributed to Lavrenti Beria, on which even Boris Nikolaevsky felt compelled to comment:

    Published by: THE MARXIST-LENINIST RESEARCH BUREAU, Ilford, Essex.

BERIA, Lavrenti P., Soviet Marxist-Leninist politician (1899-1953); director, GPU/OGPU, Transcaucasia (1921-31); lst Secretary,. CP Georgia (1931-38); USSR People's Commissar/Minister of Internal Affairs (1938-46); member, State Defence Committee (1941-45); Marshal (1945); member, Politburo, CPSU (1946-53); USSR Deputy Premier and Minister of Internal Affairs (1953); relieved of all posts and expelled from Party by revisionists (1953); tried by revisionists on false charges of treason and executed (1953).

ORAKHELASHVILI, Ivan ('Mamia'), Soviet revisionist politician (1881-1937); First Secretary, Transcaucasian Regional Party Committee (1926-29); Premier, Transcaucasia, and 1st Secretary, Transcaucasian Regional Party Committee (1931-32); Deputy Director, Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute (193237); expelled from Party, arrested and transferred to Tiflis (1937); tried for and found guilty of treason and sabotage, sentenced to death and executed (1937).

YENUKIDZE, Avel S., Soviet revisionist engineer and civil servant (1877-1937); head, military department, All-Russian Central Executive Committee (191718); Secretary, All-Russian/USSR Central Executive Committee (1918-35); expelled from Party (1935); arrested (1936); tried for and found guilty of treason and espionage, sentenced to death and executed (1937).

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