Mikhail Tskhakaya
Mikhail Tskhakaya | |
|---|---|
| მიხა ცხაკაია | |
Georgian SSR | |
| In office January 1923 – 15 February 1931 | |
| Preceded by | Ivan Sturua |
| Succeeded by | Filipp Makharadze |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 4, 1865 RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) All-Union Communist Party (b) (1918–1950) |
| Other political affiliations | Communist Party of Georgia |
| Awards | Order of Lenin |
Mikhail Grigoryevich Tskhakaya (
He was born in 1865 in Martvili Municipality. In 1892, he helped found Mesame Dasi (third group), the first Georgian Socialist party. When the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was founded, he joined it. He saved the young Joseph Stalin from expulsion for Georgian nationalism in 1904. However, Tskhakaya made Stalin write a credo renouncing his views and attend a series of his lectures on Marxism.[1] Despite this, they remained friends.
In July 1906, Tskhakaya was Stalin's witness at his wedding to
He returned to Russia in 1917, alongside Lenin on the famous sealed train. From that point onwards, he was an influential leader of the Communist Party of Georgia.[5] In June 1919 he was arrested in Kutaisi by the Menshevik government and released in May 1920. He became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Georgia. He was the representative of the Georgian SSR under the government of the RSFSR.
From 1923 to 1930 Tskhakaya served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR and one of the chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic while also being member of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.
From 1920 he was member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. In 1922 he signed the Treaty on the formation of the Soviet Union, representing the Transcaucasian SSR.
He died in Moscow after a serious illness on March 19, 1950, shortly after his election as a deputy to the Soviet of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, he was reburied at the Mtatsminda Pantheon.[6]
References
- ^ Montefiore 2008, p. 101.
- ^ Montefiore 2008, p. 136.
- ^ Montefiore 2008, p. 138.
- ^ Montefiore 2008, p. 146.
- ^ Minutes of Second Congress of the Communist International
- ISBN 978-0415544290.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-1407221458.