Career
His name is also spelled Grégoire Ouratadze in a French manner. 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. As a Georgian plenipotentiary in Moscow, he signed a May 7, 1920 treaty with Soviet Russia in which Georgia’s independence was de jure recognized.
The Red Army invasion of Georgia (1921) forced him into exile to France where he authored several monographs and numerous articles on the revolutionary movement in Georgia and the Soviet nationalities policy.