Vlasa Mgeladze ( ka, ვლასა მგელაძე; russian: Власа Джарисманович Мгеладзе, ''Vlasa Dzharismanovich Mgeladze''), alias Tria (Russian: Триа) (1868 – 1943), was a

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revolutionary and a

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-turned-

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also known as a participant of the

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, of which he wrote a valuable account.

Biography

Born into the Georgian noble Mgeladze family, Vlasa was an active participant of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Persian Constitutional Revolution. In 1910, he authored a special report “The Caucasian Social-Democrats in the Persian Revolution” which was sent to the 12th International Socialist Congress in

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's urgent request. The report was published in 1910–1911 in Paris and then republished in 1925. His complete memoirs were published in Paris in 1974. In 1912, Mgeladze, together with

Grigol Uratadze Grigol "Grisha" Uratadze ( ka, გრიგოლ "გრიშა" ურატაძე) (10 February 1878 – 12 February 1959) was a Georgian Social Democratic politician, diplomat and author. His name is also spelled Grégoire Ouratadze in a ...

, was part of the Georgian delegation to

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, where

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organized his short-lived union of social democratic factions as an alternative to Lenin's narrow notion of party unity. Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), ''The Making of the Georgian Nation'', p. 176.

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, After the 1917

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which swept the Bolsheviks to power, Mgeladze withdrew into energetic opposition to Lenin and returned to his native Georgia, where he became involved in the politics of the independent Democratic Republic of Georgia whose government made him a commissar for the People's Guard of Georgia. The 1921

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army forced Mgeladze into exile to

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, where he died in 1943.(French) Ière République de Géorgie en exil

References

1868 births 1943 deaths Democratic Republic of Georgia Emigrants from Georgia (country) to France Georgian exiles Revolutionaries from Georgia (country) Mensheviks People of the Persian Constitutional Revolution Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Social Democratic Party of Georgia politicians Burials at Leuville cemetery People from the Russian Empire {{Georgia-politician-stub