Filipp Makharadze

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Filipp Makharadze
ფილიპე მახარაძე
Georgian SSR
In office
10 July 1938 – 10 December 1941
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byGeorgy Sturua
Personal details
Born(1868-03-09)9 March 1868
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
All-Union Communist Party (b) (1918–1950)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Georgia
EducationTbilisi Spiritual Seminary
AwardsOrder of Lenin

Filipp Yeseyevich Makharadze (Georgian: ფილიპე მახარაძე, Russian: Филипп Махарадзе; 9 March 1868 – 10 December 1941) was a Georgian Bolshevik revolutionary and government official.

Life

Born in the village of Shemokmedi (Guria, Georgia),[1] Makharadze studied at the Theological Seminary in Tbilisi and later graduated from the Veterinary Institute of Warsaw (Poland).[2]

He joined the Social Democratic movement in 1891 and participated in activities in Georgia and

1905 Revolution 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

's designs with respect to Georgia.

Over the next decade, Makharadze headed 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 and Maxim Gorky, 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

References

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  2. ^ Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich (1973). Great Soviet encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Macmillan. p. 342.