Iakov Moiseyevich Shafir (original) (raw)

Iakov Moiseyevich Shafir (1887-1938) headed a special commission sent by the Comintern to Georgia to investigate archival materials preserved after the flight of the Georgian government following the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921. He published a booklet on this Тайны меньшевистского царства which appeared in Russian in 1921, with an English translation, Secrets of Menshevik Georgia: The plot against Soviet Russia unmasked published by the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1922.