Filipp Yeseyevich Makharadze ( ka, ფილიპე მახარაძე, russian: Филипп Махарадзе; 9 March 1868 – 10 December 1941) was a Georgian
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
revolutionary and government official.
Life
Born in the village of
Shemokmedi (
Guria
Guria ( ka, გურია) is a region (''mkhare'') in Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. The region has a population of 113,000 (2016), with Ozurgeti as the regional capital.
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,
Georgia
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), Makharadze studied at the Theological Seminary in
Tbilisi
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and later graduated from the Veterinary Institute of
Warsaw
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(Poland).
He joined the Social Democratic movement in 1891 and participated in activities in Georgia and
Azerbaijan
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. In 1903, he joined the Caucasian Joint Committee of the
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and played an active role in the
1905 Revolution
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in the Caucasus; he was allegedly involved in the assassination of the prominent Georgian public figure
Ilia Chavchavadze in 1907.
In 1907–1915, he led various
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
groups in
Transcaucasia
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and, after the February Revolution, he co-founded the Tbilisi Soviet of Workers' Deputies. In April 1917, he was elected as a delegate to the 7th RSDRP(B) Conference and served in the Bolshevik Caucasian Region Committee. In 1919–1920, he led Bolshevik groups resisting the
Menshevik government of
independent Georgia. After the Soviet takeover of Georgia, he became chairman of the Georgian Revolutionary Committee in February 1921 and then directed the Georgian Central Executive Committee. In 1922, Makharadze was involved in the
Georgian Affair and opposed
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze,, ; russian: Серго Константинович Орджоникидзе, Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze) born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze, russian: Григорий Константино ...
's designs with respect to Georgia.
Over the next decade, Makharadze headed the
Transcaucasian SFSR
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, common_name = Transcaucasian SFSR
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Gosplan, the Georgian Council of People's Commissars and the Transcaucasian SFSR Central Executive Committee. In 1938, he became the
Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR and later rose to the position of deputy
presidium
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Communist states
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chairman of the
USSR Supreme Soviet
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. He attended the 12th through 18th Congresses of the
Communist Party
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and directed the Institute of Marxism–Leninism.
During his political career, Makharadze also authored a number of works, including monographs on
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
and
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...
, and books on the history of the Bolshevik revolutionary movement in Transcaucasia (1927), on the Soviets and the struggle for Soviet power in Georgia (1928), on the history of Georgia in the 19th Century (1932), and the history of the workers' and peasants' movement in Georgia (1932).
See also
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Georgian Affair
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Polikarp Mdivani
References
1868 births
1941 deaths
20th-century politicians from Georgia (country)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union) politicians
Revolutionaries from Georgia (country)
Old Bolsheviks
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
People from Guria
People from Kutais Governorate
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members
Heads of government of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic People
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