Irakli Tsereteli
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Irakli Tsereteli was a Georgian politician and a leading spokesman of the Social Democratic Party of Georgia and later Russian Social Democratic Labour Party during the era of the Russian Revolutions.
Tsereteli in 1917
Noe Zhordania, like Tsereteli a Georgian Menshevik. Though the two disagreed on many topics, Zhordania encouraged Tsereteli to stand for election in 1907, later stating it was the "only time that Irakli ever listened to me."
"The victorious return of the Caucasian deputies of the State Duma of the Second Convocation," cartoon from the Armenian satirical magazine Khatabala. Tsereteli is depicted third from left in the red shirt.
The Hotel Beau Séjour, site of the Zimmerwald conference, in 1904
Petrograd Soviet
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The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies was a city council of Petrograd, the capital of Russia at the time. For brevity, it is usually called the Petrograd Soviet.
Irakli Tsereteli
…argued it was not being utilized. Returning to the government in the aftermath of the 1917 February Revolution, he took up a leading position in the Petrograd Soviet and accepted a position in the Russian Provisional Government as Minister of Post and Telegraph, and briefly as Minister of the Interior. Concerned…
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Milrevcom proclamation about the disbanding of the Russian Provisional Government