Irakli Tsereteli

Irakli Tsereteli

Irakli Tsereteli ( Georgian ირაკლი წერეთელი , Russian Ираклий Георгиевич Церетели ; born November 20, 1881 in Kutaisi , Russian Empire , today Georgia ; † May 20, 1959 in New York ) was a Russian lawyer and leading Menshevik of Georgian origin.

Tsereteli graduated from high school in Tbilisi and then studied law at Moscow University until 1902 . He was deported to Siberia as a participant in a student demonstration. On his return he joined the RSDLP , became a leading Menshevik and wrote editorials for the newspaper Kwali founded by his father Giorgi Tsereteli . The newspaper was banned in 1904, and after another prison term, Tsereteli moved to Berlin , where he spent 18 months and returned to Georgia after the 1905 revolution .

He supported Russian participation in the First World War . The February 1917 Revolution surprised him in Irkutsk , where he headed the local Soviet before moving to Petrograd and joining the Petrograd Soviet . From May to August 1917 he was Minister in the Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky . After the October Revolution he became a member of the Government of the Mensheviks in Georgia . In May 1918 he gave the address on the occasion of Georgia's withdrawal from the Transcaucasian Federation and represented Georgia together with Nikolos Tschcheidze at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 .

After the fall of the Menshevik government in Georgia in February 1921, Tsereteli emigrated to France. In the following years he often appeared as a representative of the Mensheviks at the Second International . In 1929 he retired from political life.

In 1948, in the middle of the Cold War , he moved to the USA, where he wrote his memoirs at Columbia University until his death. He died in 1959 and, according to his wishes, was buried in the Georgian cemetery in Leuville-sur-Orge, France .

literature

• Roobol WH Tsereteli, A Democrat in the Russian Revolution. A Political Biography. - The Hague: Nijhof, 1976. - p. 273. - (Studies in Social History). - ISBN 90-247-1915-1
• Ненароков А. П. "... Действуя на сознание и совесть демократии". И. Г. Церетели как идеолог альтернативного пути русской революции // Переходные эпохи в в социальном измер. История и современность. - М .: «Наука», 2002. - С. 337-350. - 600 экз. - ISBN 5-02-008844-7
• Бакулин В. И. Ираклий Церетели: особенности политического мышления // Мировая социал-демократия: особенности политического мышления // Мировая социал-демократия: демократия: теория, иестер. - М .: «Собрание», 2006. - С. 372-377. - 400 экз. - ISBN 5-9606-0021-8

Web links

Commons : Irakli Tsereteli  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Trotsky Writings, Volume 1.2, Hamburg 1988, p. 778, footnote 2.