Publications of Mikhako Tsereteli on the National Issue before his Fundamental Paper "Nation and Humanity"

Abstract

M. Tsereteli was the active political figure in the beginning of the 20th century. He was defending the idea of justice and equality with his activity, at the same time he was considering, that anarchism was the way to reach socialism.In the given work it is described the position of M. Tsereteli about the questions of international relations; in concrete, he assumed, that defending nation’s rights was the first-place necessity as exactly the nation and not a state would be the subject of discussion of international law. And exactly the nation would defend nations’ interests through the struggling for self-determination, and thus, nations’ equality would be reached in reality.The work contains the articles of M. Tsereteli from newspapers. Until today these articles were beyond the attention of science society. In 1909, in the newspaper ,,Droeba” M. Tsereteli published the Series of articles united under the common name ,,Four Notions,” that reflects the main notions of nationalism, such as ,,Nationalism,” ,,Internationalism,” ,,Chauvinism” and ,,Cosmopolitism“.