Benito Mikheili Buachidze ( ka, ბენიტო ბუაჩიძე; 2 September 1905 – 3 October 1937 ) was a Georgian literary critic. He was a member of the SCCP since 1926. He was the brother of .

Biography

Benito Buachidze was one of the first ideological leaders and organizers of Georgian and Transcaucasian proletarian writing. Buachidze had adopted the name "Benito" with reference to

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, who in the 1920s was seen as a modernizing figure in the style of

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. In 1926–28 he was elected Secretary of the Union of Georgian and Transcaucasian Proletarian Writing Associations. He contributed to the newspaper ''Zaria Vostok''. Buachidze was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "На литературном посту" and the editor of the magazine "На рубеже Востока". In 1932 he worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Moscow Communist Academy. In 1934 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Literature of

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...

. In his works Buachidze developed the issues of the development of Soviet literature, the problems of realism and romanticism, the revolutionary traditions of Soviet art. Among Buachidze's books are: ''Struggle for Hegemony'' (1930), ''Creative Issues of Fiction'' (1933) and ''Ways of Contemporary Georgian Literature'' (1934). He wrote about

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Mikheil Javakhishvili Mikheil Javakhishvili ( ka, მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი; birth surname: Adamashvili ადამაშვილი) (20 November 1880 – 30 September 1937) was a Georgian and Soviet novelist who is regarded as one of the ...

, Galaktion Tabidze,

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and Nikoloz Ostrovsky. Benito Buachidze was arrested on 22 July 1937 and convicted on 3 October 1937 by the passing session of the Military Board of the Supreme Court of the USSR. He was accused of counterrevolution and sentenced to the highest measure of punishment -

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. He was rehabilitated posthumously on 25 June 1956.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT: 1905 births 1937 deaths Writers from Georgia (country) Soviet writers Members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union executed by the Soviet Union Great Purge victims from Georgia (country) Executed writers People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm