Vlasa Mgeladze alias Tria (Russian: Триа), (1868 – 1943) was a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 social democratic

Social democracy

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 revolutionary and a Bolshevik

Bolshevik

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-turned-Menshevik

Menshevik

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 also known as a participant of the Persian Constitutional Revolution of which he wrote a valuable account.

Mgeladze was an active participant of the Russian Revolution of 1905

Russian Revolution of 1905

The 1905 Russian Revolution was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies...

 and the Persian Constitutional Revolution. In 1910, he authored a special report “The Caucasian Social-Democrats in the Persian Revolution” which was sent to the 12th International Socialist Congress

International Socialist Bureau

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 in Copenhagen

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 at Lenin's urgent request. The report was published in 1910-1911 in Paris and then republished in 1925. His complete memoirs were published in Paris in 1974.

In 1912, Mgeladze, together with Grigol Uratadze

Grigol Uratadze

Grigol Uratadze was a Georgian Social Democratic politician, diplomat and author. His name is also spelled Grégoire Ouratadze in a French manner....

, was part of the Georgian delegation to Vienna

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 where Leon Trotsky

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 organized his short-lived union of social democratic factions as an alternative to Lenin’s narrow notion of party unity. After the 1917 October Revolution

October Revolution

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 which swept the Bolsheviks to power, Mgeladze withdrew into energetic opposition to Lenin and returned to his native Georgia where he became involved in the politics of the independent Democratic Republic of Georgia

Democratic Republic of Georgia

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 whose government made him a commissar for the People’s Guard of Georgia. The 1921 invasion

Red Army invasion of Georgia

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 by the Soviet Russian army forced Mgeladze into exile to France

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where he died in 1943.