Education
Born in Lagodekhi, Kakheti (eastern Georgia), he graduated from Tbilisi Agricultural Institute.
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Jumber Patiashvili
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He was the Communist leader of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1985 to 1989. Patiashvili, a nondescript party loyalist, succeeded Eduard Shevardnadze as the First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party in 1985. Under Patiashvili, most of Shevardnadze"s initiatives atrophied, and no new policy innovations were undertaken.
Patiashvili removed some of Shevardnadze"s key appointees, although he could not dismiss his predecessor"s many middle-echelon appointees without seriously damaging the party apparatus.
By isolating opposition groups, Patiashvili forced reformist leaders into underground organizations and confrontational behavior. By the end of 1988, Georgian national movement became more active, several manifestations and hunger strikes were organized by the so-called informal political organizations.
The protesters were brutally dispersed by the Soviet troops on April 9, 1989. Following the April 9 Massacre, the Georgian national liberation movement radicalized and left little chance to a local communist leadership to control the situation in the Republic.
Patiashvili was removed from his office and replaced by the former Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) chief Givi Gumbaridze the same month.
He was elected Member of Parliament in the Georgian parliament of 1992-1995. Later, he distanced himself from Abashidze, remaining, however, in opposition to Eduard Shevardnadze’s government. His party took part in the oppositionist demonstrations which led to the Rose Revolution in November 2003.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Gori district in 2004.
He ran in the May 2008 Parliamentary election from the Gori constituency on the Rightist Alliance–Topadze-Industrialists bloc ticket.
Politics
From 1966, he worked for Communist Youth League and subsequently from Communist Party. Patiashvili returned to the national politics prior to the 1999 parliamentary elections.
Membership
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union