ლაფანაშვილი, გიორგი. დუშეთის აჯანყება 1918 წელს. გამოცემა პირველი.
ტფილისი : საქართველოს წითელი ჯვრის საზოგადოების სტამბა, 1927. XXV, 348, [2] გვერდი, ავტორის პორტრეტითა და ფოტოსურათებით ; 22 სმ.
მაგარი ყდა (მოგვიანო). ტირაჟი 3 500 ც.
თავფურცელზე - ავტორის ხელნაწერი დარსობითი წარწერა წითელი მელნით.
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Lapanashvili, Giorgi. The Dusheti Uprising of 1918 / with the author's portrait and photographic illustrations. First edition.
Tbilisi : Georgian Red Cross Society Press, 1927. XXV, 348, [2] pp. ; 22 cm.
Later hardcover binding. Print run of 3,500 copies.
Signed by the author on the title page, with a presentation inscription in red ink.
Lacking pp. VI-X (five leaves of the preface). Boards good: later binding, light wear. Text block fair: leaves age-toned, some staining (chiefly to first and last leaves), edges of rear leaves lightly frayed; text complete and legible apart from the missing preface pages.
A scarce and historically charged first-hand account of the Dusheti peasant uprising of June-July 1918, written by Giorgi Lapanashvili, an active participant in the revolt and a member of the Dusheti district committee of the Communist Party, whose portrait appears as the frontispiece. The uprising, mounted in the mountainous Dusheti district north of Tbilisi against the newly independent Georgian Democratic Republic, was suppressed by government forces; Lapanashvili's book, issued in 1927 by the Georgian Red Cross Society press, gathers his own narrative together with the reminiscences of fellow Bolshevik insurgents and numerous documentary photographs of participants, providing a detailed, if openly partisan, primary source on both the course of the revolt and the Bolshevik agitation that preceded it. Copies are genuinely uncommon: as an early Soviet-Georgian account whose author and comrades belonged to a political generation later consumed by the purges, the edition circulated only briefly before effectively being withdrawn, and surviving examples are scarce on the market. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author himself in red ink, making it a documented authorial presentation copy of real association interest for collectors of the Russian Revolution and Civil War in the Caucasus, early Sovietica, and the history of the short-lived Georgian Democratic Republic. The only notable defect is the loss of five preface leaves (pp. VI-X).