Making of the Georgian Nation, Second Edition

Name: Making of the Georgian Nation, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780253209153

ISBN-10: 0253209153

ISBN-13: 9780253209153

Edition: 2nd 1994

Authors: Ronald Grigor Suny

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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…

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List price: $29.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/22/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface


Note on Transliteration and Dating



The Rise and Fall of the Georgian Monarchies



The Formation of the Georgian Nation



Christian Georgia: The First Thousand Years



The Long Twilight of the Georgian Kingdoms



Georgia in the Russian Empire



Russian Rule and Georgian Society



Emancipation and the End of Seigneurial Georgia



The Emergence of Political Society



Marxism and the National Struggle



The End of Tsarist Georgia



Revolutionary and Soviet Georgia



Revolution and Republic



Bolshevik Georgia



Stalin's Revolution



Stalinism in Georgia



Georgia and Soviet Nationality Policy since Stalin



The Georgian Road to Independence


Glossary


Notes


Bibliographical Note


Index