Efrem Eshba

Efrem Alekseevich Eshba was an Abkhaz and Soviet statesman and leading Bolshevik in Abkhazia in the 1920s.

Life

Education

Eshba graduated from the Sukhumi Mountain School and the Tiflis Gymnasium. He studied law at Moscow University. During his studies at the university, he became a Marxist, joining the Bolsheviks in 1914.

Political career

He was elected Chairman of the Sukhum District Committee of the RSDLP(B) in 1917, and was a Special Commissioner in the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the RSFSR.
In 1921 he wrote to the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP to oppose an merger of Abkhazia with Georgia.

Arrest and execution

In 1936, he was arrested by the NKVD, and was sentenced to death in 1939. He was executed, and posthumously rehabilitated during the process of destalinization.