Background
ARVELADZE, Pyotr was born on January 16, 1888 in village Chagani, Kutaisi Uyezd. Son of a peasant.
ARVELADZE, Pyotr was born on January 16, 1888 in village Chagani, Kutaisi Uyezd. Son of a peasant.
1906 joined Bolshevik Party and worked with M. Tsakhcya, Stalin, Shaumyan, M. Azizbekov, Ordzhonikidze and others Member, Tiflis Bolshevik Committee. 1910 arrested and exiled from Caucasus for three years.
1910-1913 revol propaganda among workers in Khar’kov. Late 1913 drafted into Russian Army. After 1917 February Revol head, Bolshevik Faction, Aleksandropol’ Soviet of Workers.
Soldiers and Peasants’ Deputy FcbJuly 1917 cd and publisher, newspaper Rabochiy i soldat: from Juliy 1917 chairman, Aleksandropol’ Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Also managed publ of weekly Pravda zhizni: early December 1917 elected chairman, Soldiers’ Section, Aleksandropol’ Soviet of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants’ Deputy.
Shortly thereafter cent by Caucasian Kray Bolshevik Party Committee to Baku. From January 1918 assistant to A. Dzhaparidze, chairman, Baku Soviet of Workers, Soldiers and Sailors’ Deputy. Then secretary to South. Shaumyan, chairman, Baku Council of People's Commissar.
After suppression of Soviet regime in Baku in August 1918 evacuated with a group of officials to Astrakhan’ and appointed political comissar, Lenin Regt, 2nd Red Army. Fought against General Denikin at Astrakhan’ and in Northern Caucasus.
Communist Party member from 1906.