The Making of the Georgian Nation, Second Edition

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Indiana University Press, Oct 22, 1994 - History - 418 pages

". . . the best study in English to date for an understanding of Georgian nationalism." —Religious Studies Review

". . . the standard account of Georgian history in English." —American Historical Review

". . . tour de force research . . . fascinating reading." —American Political Science Review

Like the other republics floating free after the demise of the Soviet empire, the independent republic of Georgia is reinventing its past, recovering what had been forgotten or distorted during the long years of Russian and Soviet rule. Whether Georgia can successfully be transformed from a society rent by conflict into a pluralistic democratic nation will depend on Georgians rethinking their history.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of Georgian history, from the ethnogenesis of the Georgians in the first millennium B.C., through the period of Russian and Soviet rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the emergence of an independent republic in 1991, the ethnic and civil warfare that has ensued, and perspectives for Georgia's future.

 

Contents

I
3
The First Thousand Years
20
Russian Rule and Georgian Society
63
45
79
Georgia
96
The Emergence of Political Society
113
Marxism and the National Struggle
144
The End of Tsarist Georgia
165
Revolution and Republic
185
IO Bolshevik Georgia
209
Stalins Revolution
237
Stalinism in Georgia
260
Georgia and Soviet Nationality Policy since
292
The Georgian Road to Independence
317
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