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Glossary of People: Or (833 words) |
 | Sergo Ordzhonikidze, the son of a small landowner, was born in 1886. |
| Ordzhonikidze was soon captured and sentenced to three years' hard labour. |
| Ordzhonikidze was rewarded by being appointed to the Politburo in 1926 and later became Commissar for Heavy Industry. |
| The Georgian affair of 1922 - policy failure, personality clash or power struggle? - ©Welcome2Sakartvelo (9636 words) |
| Ordzhonikidze's role in the invasion of Georgia was typical of his later handling of Caucasian affairs; he paid no attention to the opinions of his subordinates, while persistently presenting Moscow with his own demands (as opposed to seeking guidance) and, where this failed, he would present a fait accompli. |
| To Ordzhonikidze, however, Georgian nationalism was as bad as Russian chauvinism, as the treatment of Abkhazians and Ossetians by the Menshevik government had testified: 'Georgians in Georgia - that is the same as Russians in Russia' (39). |
| Ordzhonikidze's political conviction that the unity of Transcaucasia overrode other considerations, and his strong aversion to all manifestations of nationalism, combined with his arrogant disposition and short temper to contribute to the crisis in Georgia. |
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