People of the Revolution and the USSR
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
Background: Georgia
The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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GlossaryRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
- Filipp Yeseyevich Makharadze ფილიპე იესეს ძე მახარაძე The Bolshevik elder removed by Stalin for trying to Sovietize Georgia gently
- Polikarp Gurgenovich Mdivani Поликарп Гургенович Мдивани The Georgian communist who led Lenin's last fight against Stalin's centralization
- Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state
- Kamo Симон Тер-Петросян The Bolsheviks' legendary expropriator, the revolutionary who feigned madness and survived four death sentences
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky Владимир Владимирович Маяковский The revolution’s megaphone and satirist
- Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba Нестор Аполлонович Лакоба Stalin's closest friend turned Beria's first victim: the red prince of Abkhazia