📅 25 February 1921
The Red Army entered Tbilisi and a Georgian Soviet republic was proclaimed, ending the Menshevik-led Democratic Republic of Georgia. Soviet leaders described the change as revolutionary liberation;...
📅 12 March 1922
Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan formed the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. The arrangement pooled institutions before the federation entered the USSR. It reduced separate...
📅 5 October 1922
Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze pressed to place Georgia inside a Transcaucasian federation and a centralized Soviet union. Georgian Bolsheviks resisted the arrangement and reported coercion. Lenin’s...
