![]() ![]() As committed internationalists and Marxists, the Georgian social democrats initially viewed the political future of Georgia within a reformed Russia. ![]() While the Georgian social democrats had for years shared a lot in common with Bolsheviks ideologically and in terms of tactics of struggle (known as the "most Bolshevik of the Mensheviks") they found themselves in a peculiar situation, after splitting with Lenin and the Bolsheviks (who had achieved revolution after October 1917, but now were embattled in Civil War) by 1918. Under the control of veterans of the decades long social democratic movement both in the South Caucasus and the Russian Empire at large, these Georgian social democrats led by Noe Jordania were allied with the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. The Democratic Republic of Georgia - also known as the First Republic - existed between 1918-1921. ![]()
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