Revol propaganda in Kutaisi, Batumi, Tiflis, Baku and other Transcaucasian cities. Frequently arrested by Tsarist authorities. Late 1918— March 1920 member, Revol Military Council, 11th Army and chief, Polit Department, 10th Army.
1920-1921 member, Caucasian Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1921 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic dipl representative in Turkey. June 1921 chairman, Geo Revol Committee.
1922 member, Soviet deleg at Genoa Conference. 1922 Presidium member, Central Committee, Communist Party Georgia As regards the formation of the Transcaucasian Federation and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics he insisted that Geo should retain its national individuality and that Geo should join the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics directly, and not via the Transcaucasian Federation.
Geo Party organisation regarded this stand by Mdivani and his supporters as nationalistic deviation. 1923 sided with Leftist Opposition. 1924 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics trade representative in France.
1931-1936 chairman, Supreme Economic Council, Geo People's Commissar of Light Indiana and first deputy chairman, Geo Council of People's Commissar. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Geo Central Executive Committee. 1928 expelled from Party for allegiance to Trotskyite opposition.
1931 reinstated in Party. 1936 again expelled; 9 July 1937 sentenced to death by Geo Supreme Court.
Religion is bad because it doesn't give equal treatment to women and thus offends basic human rights.
All policy decisions should be made in the light of the continued, permanent development of the theory of Marxism–Leninism.
Communist Party member from 1903.