Grigol Uratadze
Grigol Uratadze (Georgian: გრიგოლ ურატაძე) (1880 – 1959) was a Georgian Social Democratic politician, diplomat and author. His name is also spelled Grégoire Ouratadze in a French[1] manner.
In 1912, Uratadze, together with Vlasa Mgeladze, was part of the Georgian delegation to Vienna, where Leon Trotsky organized his short-lived union of social democratic factions as an alternative to Lenin’s narrow notion of party unity.[2] A close associate of Noe Zhordania, he figured prominently in the development of Menshevism in Georgia and took an active part in the establishment of an independent republic of Georgia[3] in 1918. As a Georgian plenipotentiary in Moscow, he signed a May 7, 1920 treaty with Soviet Russia in which Georgia’s independence was de jure recognized. The Red Army invasion of Georgia (1921) forced him into exile to France[4] where he authored several monographs and numerous articles on the revolutionary movement in Georgia and the Soviet nationalities policy.
References
- ^ (French) Grégoire Ouratadzé.
- ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), The Making of the Georgian Nation, p. 176. Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3
- ^ (French) Ière République de Géorgie.
- ^ (French) Ière République de Géorgie en exil en France.
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