Prokopius Dzhaparidze
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Georgian people
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Communist
Communism
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activist, one of the Red Army
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and Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
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during the Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution of 1917
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Educated at the Alexandrovsk Teachers Institute in Tbilisi
Tbilisi
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, Dzhaparidze joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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in 1898. He was one of the founders of Gummet organization, set up to do political work amongst Muslims, which grew into a mass organisation, drawing large masses of Muslim people behind the Bolsheviks.
After the February Revolution
February Revolution
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of 1917, Dzhaparidze was a member of the Baku
Baku
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Committee of the Bolshevik Party (see Baku Commune); as a delegate to the 6th congress of the Bolshevik Party, he was selected as a candidate member of its Central Committee
Central Committee
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, and became a member of Caucasian Border Committee. From December 1917 Deputy Chairman, during January–July 1918 the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Baku Soviet
Soviet (council)
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During March, Dzhaparidze was the member of the Committee of Revolutionary Defence which suppressed a mutiny in Baku; from April, he was the Commissar for Internal Affairs in Baku, and, from June, he also served as Commissar for Food.
On September 20, 1918, he was one of the 26 Baku Commissars
26 Baku Commissars
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shot by the White Army of the Central Caspian Dictatorship.