 The Committee was responsible for the preparation and guidance of the abortive August Uprising of 1924.The Committee was formed early in May 1922 as a result of the negotiations of the Georgian Social Democrats (Mensheviks), a former ruling party in pre-Communist Georgia, with its erstwhile political opposition – the National Democratic Party, the Federalist Party, the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) and the Skhivi (“Beam”) Party.Each party was represented by one member in the Damkom (hence the organization’s alternative name, the Parity Committee), which was traditionally chaired by a Menshevik.