The Georgian affair of 1922--policy failure, personality clash or power struggle?

HISTORY of Georgia (Republic); SOVIET Union politics & government; LENIN, Vladimir Ilich, 1870-1924; STALIN, Joseph, 1879-1953; HISTORY; POLITICAL science

Examines the effect of the dispute over Georgia in the latter part of 1922 on the government structure of the Soviet Union. Effect of the dispute on the relationship between Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Joseph Stalin; Formation of a Transcaucasian Federation from the three republics of Georgia, Armenia and Zerbaidzhan; Errors committed by the government from the point of view of Marxist theory.