Avel Enukidze

Avel Safronovich Enukidze (OldStyleDate|May 19|1877|May 7 – October 30, 1937), a prominent "Old Bolshevik" and, at one point, a member of the Soviet Central Committee in Moscow. In 1932 along with Mikhail Kalinin, Vyacheslav Molotov he co-signed the infamous "Law of Spikelets".

Enukidze had written a book on the history of a famous Bolshevik printing press in the Caucasus which had bombarded Russia with Vladimir Lenin's commandments during the Czarist period. Soon he was accused of having deliberately diminished Joseph Stalin's contributions to the printing press and to Bolshevism in general, though Stalin in fact had almost nothing to do with it. In July 1935, Enukidze was called to account before a Central Committee Plenum in Moscow, expelled from the Party immediately, and three years later, arrested, tried and shot.

Enukidze was rehabilitated as a victim of Stalin's purges.

References

* [http://www.diacritica.com/degenerate/9/beria5.html The Life of Lavrentii Beria]