Pointed toward reestablishing the autonomy of Georgia from the Soviet Union, the uprising was driven by the Committee for Independence of Georgia, a coalition of hostile to Soviet political associations led by the Georgian Social Democratic (Menshevik) Party. It spoke to the zenith of a three-year battle against the Bolshevik system that Soviet Russia's Red Army had built up in Georgia during a military mission against the Democratic Republic of Georgia in mid 1921.

Red Army and Cheka troops, compelled of the Georgian Bolsheviks Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze, the rebellion and induced a flood of mass suppressions that slaughtered a few thousand Georgians. The August uprising was one of the last significant uprisings against the early Soviet government, and its annihilation denoted an authoritative foundation of Soviet standard in Georgia.

Under the Soviet Union, the August Uprising stayed a no-no subject and was barely referenced by any stretch of the imagination, if not in its philosophical substance. Utilizing its power over instruction and the media, the Soviet publicity machine condemned the Georgian disobedience as a "grisly experience started by the Georgian Social Democratic (Menshevik) Party and other traditionalist powers who figured out how to embroil a little and undereducated aspect of the populace in it."

With another tide of autonomy development clearing all through Georgia in the last part of the 1980s, the counter Soviet warriors of 1924, especially, the main sectarian official Kakutsa Cholokashvili, rose as a significant image of Georgian enthusiasm and public protection from the Soviet standard.