Benito Buachidze

[1] Benito Buachidze was one of the first ideological leaders and organizers of Georgian and Transcaucasian proletarian writing.

[2] In 1926–28 he was elected Secretary of the Union of Georgian and Transcaucasian Proletarian Writing Associations.

Among Buachidze's books are: Struggle for Hegemony (1930), Creative Issues of Fiction (1933) and Ways of Contemporary Georgian Literature (1934).

He wrote about Ilia Chavchavadze, Mikheil Javakhishvili, Galaktion Tabidze, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Nikoloz Ostrovsky.

[1] Benito Buachidze was arrested on 22 July 1937 and convicted on 3 October 1937 by the passing session of the Military Board of the Supreme Court of the USSR.