Seit Devdariani

Seit Devdariani (Georgian: სეით დევდარიანი) (1879 — October 21, 1937) was a Georgian philosopher and political activist who was executed during Stalin's Great Purge.

Devdariani graduated from the Tiflis theological seminary in 1898. He was involved in Social Democratic movement since the early 1900s. During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he was a leading Menshevik in Kharkiv. He was a member of the Georgian National Council from 1917 to 1918 and of the Constituent Assmebly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia for the Social-Democrats from 1919 to 1921. After the fall of the Georgian republic, Devdariani became involved in anti-Soviet opposition. Between 1921 and 1924 he was a Chairman of the underground Central Committee of the Georgian Social-Democratic party. In 1937, he was arrested and executed by the Soviet government.^[1]

Devdariani was the author of several works on philosophy, including a three-volume history of Georgian thought which was lost after his execution. Only one chapter, that on the 18th-century Catholicos Anton I, survived to be published in 1989.^[2]

References

^ Rayfield, Donald (2004), Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him, p. 49. Viking Press, ISBN 0-670-91088-0
^ Rayfield, Donald (2000), The Literature of Georgia: A History, p. 297. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5.

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