Georgian Archival Bull. No. 3, Beria-Stalin Correspondence & Gindia Film

The 3rd edition (Fall 2008) of the quarterly Archival Bulletin has recently been released by the Archive Department of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and is available for download in PDF
format:
http://archive.security.gov.ge/saarqivo_moambe_3.pdf

The Archives Department has also published an Appendix to the 3rd Edition, entitled "Correspondence between Lavrenty Beria and Joseph Stalin: 1937," which provides photographs of original telegrams (in
Russian) sent by Beria to Stalin in Moscow from File No. 152 (Opis 14) of the Georgian Central Committee archive: http://archive.security.gov.ge/saarqivo_moambe_3_add.pdf

In addition, they have produced a short film (in Georgian with English subtitles) as an extension of one of the articles in the 3rd edition, called "File 171: the Gindia Case," based on the criminal file of an Abkhaz separatist from the late 1970s:
http://archive.security.gov.ge/video/gindiacase.wmv

Any institution interested in receiving hard copies of the Archival Bulletin and the Appendix, or individuals interested in working in the Georgian KGB and Central Committee archives should contact:

Colonel Omar Tushurashvili
Head of the Archives Department
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
Vazha-Pshavela Avenue, #72
Tbilisi, Georgia
Tel./Fax: (995 32) 323898
E-mail: Tushurashvili(at)pol.ge or Moambe(at)pol.ge

Timothy Blauvelt
Tbilisi, Georgia