Levan Aghniashvili ( ka, ლევან აღნიაშვილი) (1897–1937) was a
Georgian lawyer
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and
Professor of Law
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who served as the seventh Rector of
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...
in the period between April 1933 and July 1935.
Having opposed the
Democratic Republic of Georgia
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, he was sent into an exile in 1918. During the civil war, Aghniashvili was involved in political activities in the
Ukraine
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,
North Caucasus
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, and the districts of
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and
Minsk
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. In the period between 1923 and 1925, Aghniashvili served as the Representative of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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to Germany. From 1926, he had been delivering lectures at the State University in
Tbilisi
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, until becoming the Rector in 1933. Levan Aghniashvili was shot to death by the
Communists
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in 1937, the year of massive repressions. Aghniashvili was succeeded by
Karlo Oragvelidze
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who also became the victim of Communist repressions, similarly being shot in 1937, despite being largely pro-Communist and having criticised
historian
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Ivane Javakhishvili
Ivane Alexandres dze Javakhishvili ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილი; 23 April 1876 – 18 November 1940) was a Georgian historian and linguist whose works heavily influenced the Kartvelian studies, modern scholarship of the ...
. Aghniashvili's rectorship is still remembered as an important one, as the University Publishing House was established during his period of leadership.
Lawyers from Tbilisi
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union executed by the Soviet Union
1897 births
1937 deaths
Great Purge victims from Georgia (country)
Rectors of Tbilisi State University
20th-century lawyers from Georgia (country)
Soviet academics
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