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Tsereteli, Iraklii was born in 1882.
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Iraklii Georgievich Tsereteli
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Menshevik leader. Member of the 2nd Duma. Exiled to Siberia. Returned after the February Revolution 1917. Like Kerenskii, became a link man between the rival powers of the government and the Soviet.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, and from May 1917, Minister of Mail and Telegraph Communications in the Provisional Government. Also member of the Contact Commission between the Petrograd Soviet and the government. Emigrated, 1923. Became one of the founders of the 2nd International.
Remained a staunch opponent of Bolshevism. After World War II, refused to join the group of Russian emigres, led by Maklakov, who visited the Soviet Embassy in Paris to drink Stalin’s health, 12 February 1945. Thus there was no Social-Democrat present in the group (though there were a number of former right-wing politicians), a fact which has been later pointed out with glee by the Sotcialisticheskii Vestnik in New York, the only remaining socialist Russian paper in the world.
