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Non-Soviet revolutionary 생몰년 미상

A Georgian communist who challenged coercive centralization

At Ordzhonikidze’s home in 1922, he called Sergo “Stalin’s donkey” and was promptly struck.

Akaki Kabakhidze was a Georgian communist active in the Georgian party leadership in the early 1920s. In the dispute over Moscow’s proposed Transcaucasian unification, he stood with local party cadres defending regional autonomy and national rights. After calling Sergo Ordzhonikidze “Stalin’s donkey” in 1922, he was struck by Ordzhonikidze, an incident that helped prompt Lenin’s criticism of coercion in the Georgian Affair.

Socialist-bloc leader 1885–? ○ Later fate unknown

A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash

On March 2, 1921, the Kronstadt insurgents arrested and imprisoned him.

Pavel Vasiliev was a Bolshevik local official who led the Kronstadt Soviet at the end of the Russian Civil War. He represented Soviet authority as sailors and workers opposing war communism and party rule turned their demands into an open confrontation. In March 1921 the insurgent forces arrested him alongside Nikolai Kuzmin, making his detention a revealing moment in the tension between revolutionary Soviet democracy and the party’s monopoly of power.