August Uprising

August Uprising
Part of Aftermath of Red Army invasion of Georgia and Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
Georgian rebels known as "Oath of Fealty" (შეფიცულები) under the command of Kakutsa Cholokashvili
Date 28 August – 5 September 1924 Location Georgian SSR Result Soviet government victory Consolidation of Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR
Belligerents
Soviet Union Red Army Cheka  Georgian SSR	Committee for the Independence of Georgia other Georgian guerrilla groups
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Stalin Sergo Orjonikidze Semyon Pugachov Solomon Mogilevsky Levan Gogoberidze Lavrenti Beria Shalva Tsereteli	Spiridon Chavchavadze Kakutsa Cholokashvili Iason Javakhishvili Mikheil Javakhishvili Kote Andronikashvili Mikheil Lashkarashvili Svimon Tsereteli Eko Tsereteli Sergo Matitaishvili Avtandil Urushadze Nikoloz Ketskhoveli Evgen Gvaladze
Casualties and losses
Unknown	3,000–3,500 killed in fighting;
7,000–10,000 people executed. 20,000 deported to Siberia and Central Asian deserts.

The August Uprising (Georgian: აგვისტოს აჯანყება, romanized: agvist'os ajanq'eba) was an unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic from late August to early September 1924.

Aimed at restoring the independence of Georgia from the Soviet Union, the uprising was led by the Committee for Independence of Georgia, a bloc of anti-Soviet political organisations chaired by the Georgian Social Democratic (Menshevik) Party. It represented the culmination of a three-year struggle against the Bolshevik regime that Soviet Russia's Red Army had established in Georgia during a military campaign against the Democratic Republic of Georgia in early 1924.

Red Army and Cheka troops, under orders of the Georgian Bolsheviks Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze,^[1] suppressed the insurrection and instigated a wave of mass repressions that killed several thousand Georgians. The August uprising was one of the last major rebellions against the early Soviet government, and its defeat marked a definitive establishment of Soviet rule in Georgia.