I didn't know about it either until I read: - Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 It has a lot of fun stuff about how the Abkhazia communist party and their

I didn't know about it either until I read: - Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 It has a lot of fun stuff about how the Abkhazia communist party and their interaction with the main party in Moscow. A lot of interesting history.