Grigol Uratadze

Grigol "Grisha" Uratadze (Georgian: გრიგოლ "გრიშა" ურატაძე) (10 February 1878 – 12 February 1959) was a Georgian Social Democratic politician, diplomat and author. His name is also spelled Grégoire Ouratadze in a French^[1] manner.

Uratadze was born in Atsana in the Ozurget Uyezd (modern Guria).^[2]

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.^[3] 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^[4] in 1918. As a Georgian plenipotentiary in Moscow, he signed a 7 May 7, 1920 treaty with Soviet Russia in which Georgia's independence was de jure recognized. The Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921 forced him into exile to France,^[5] where he authored several monographs and numerous articles on the revolutionary movement in Georgia and the Soviet nationalities policy.

References

^ "Géorgie et France : Grigol Ouratadzé (1880-1959), secrétaire d'Etat" [Georgia and France: Grigol Uratadze (1880-1959), Secretary of State] (in French). 6 December 2014. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
^ Mchedlishvili, David A. (2012). "გრიშა ურატაძე" [Grisha Uratadze] (in Georgian). NGLG.gov.ge. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), The Making of the Georgian Nation, p. 176. Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3.
^ "La Ière République de Géorgie (1918-1921)" [The First Republic of Georgia (1918-1921)] (in French). 6 February 2013. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
^ "La Ière République de Géorgie en exil en France" (in French). 14 September 2012. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.