Filipp Yeseyevich Makharadze ( ka, ფილიპე მახარაძე, ; 9 March 1868 – 10 December 1941) was a Georgian

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revolutionary and government official.

Life

Born in the village of Shemokmedi (

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), Makharadze studied at the Theological Seminary in

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and later graduated from the Veterinary Institute of

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(Poland). He joined the Social Democratic movement in 1891 and participated in activities in Georgia and

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. In 1903, he joined the Caucasian Joint Committee of the

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and played an active role in the

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in the Caucasus; he was allegedly involved in the assassination of the prominent Georgian public figure

Ilia Chavchavadze Tavadi, Tavadi (Prince) Ilia Chavchavadze ( ka, ილია ჭავჭავაძე; 27 October 1837 – 12 September 1907) was a Georgians, Georgian journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism ...

in 1907. In 1907–1915, he led various

groups in

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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

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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 alongside Polikarp Mdivani and others; their group opposed

Sergo Ordzhonikidze Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, ; (born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze; 18 February 1937) was an Old Bolshevik and a Soviet statesman. Born and raised in Georgia, in the Russian Empire, Ordzhonikidze joined the Bolsheviks at an e ...

's designs with respect to Georgia. Filipp Makharadze

Over the next decade, Makharadze headed the Transcaucasian SFSR 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

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chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet. He attended the 12th through 18th Congresses of the Communist Party 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 () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...

and

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an aut ...

, 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).

Awards

* Order of Lenin (February 24, 1941) * Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

References

1868 births 1941 deaths People from Guria People from Kutais Governorate Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Old Bolsheviks Communist Party of the Soviet Union members First convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union) politicians Heads of state of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Heads of government of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic People's commissars and ministers of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Revolutionaries from Georgia (country) Heads of state of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Recipients of the Order of Lenin {{Soviet-bio-stub

Life

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