Editing August Uprising (section)

{{Short description|1924 failed insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR}}
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{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict          = August Uprising
| image             = Kakutsa shepitsulebi.jpg
| partof            = Aftermath of [[Red Army invasion of Georgia]] and [[Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks]]
| image_size        = 300
| caption           = Georgian rebels known as "Oath of Fealty" (შეფიცულები) under the command of [[Kakutsa Cholokashvili]]
| date              = 28 August – 5 September 1924
| place             = [[Georgian SSR]]
| result            = Soviet government victory

*Consolidation of Soviet rule in the [[Georgian SSR]]

| combatant1        = {{flag|Soviet Union |1924}}
*{{flagicon image|Red Army flag.svg}} [[Red Army]]
*{{flagicon image|KGB Symbol.png}} [[Cheka]]
*{{flag|Georgian SSR|1921}}
| combatant2        = {{flagicon|Democratic Republic of Georgia}} [[Committee for the Independence of Georgia]] <br> other Georgian guerrilla groups
| commander1        = [[Joseph Stalin]] <br>[[Sergo Orjonikidze]]<br>[[Semyon Pugachov]]<br>[[Solomon Mogilevsky]]<br>[[Levan Gogoberidze]]<br>[[Lavrenti Beria]]<br>[[Shalva Tsereteli]]
| commander2        = [[Spiridon Chavchavadze]]<br>[[Kakutsa Cholokashvili]]<br>[[Iason Javakhishvili]]<br>[[Mikheil Javakhishvili]]<br>[[Kote Andronikashvili]]<br>[[Mikheil Lashkarashvili]]<br>[[Svimon Tsereteli]]<br>[[Eko Tsereteli]]<br>[[Sergo Matitaishvili]]<br>[[Avtandil Urushadze]]<br>[[Nikoloz Ketskhoveli]]<br>[[Evgen Gvaladze]]
| strength1         = 
| strength2         = 
| casualties1       = Unknown
| casualties2       = 3,000–3,500 killed in fighting;
| casualties3       = 7,000–10,000 people executed.<br />20,000 deported to Siberia and Central Asian deserts.
}}

The '''August Uprising''' ({{lang-ka|აგვისტოს აჯანყება|tr}}) was an unsuccessful [[insurrection]] against [[Soviet Union|Soviet rule]] in the [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic]] from late August to early September 1924.

Aimed at restoring the independence of [[Georgia (country)|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 [[Russian SFSR|Soviet Russia]]'s [[Red Army]] had established in Georgia during a [[Red Army invasion of Georgia|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]],<ref>Anton Ciliga, ''Au pays du mensonge déconcertant'', 1938</ref> 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.