A Modern History Of Georgia

Author : David M. Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Georgia (Republic)
ISBN : 0700715622

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A Modern History of Georgia by David M. Lang Pdf

The Georgians... have a civilization stretching back over more than 3000 years, an extensive literary and artisitic heritage, and a rapidly developing industrial and agricultural economy. As the native country of Stalin, Georgia is assured of a place in the modern political history of the world - from Chapter One: The Land and The People The former Soviet republic of Georgia is both the birthplace of the USSR's prime architects, Stalin and Beria, as well as the Land of the Golden Fleece which Jason and the Argonauts sought. With the height of the Cold War at the end of the 1950s as its cut-off point, this sometimes controversial but always insightful work charts the events in a volatile history that led to the creation of the modern state. A particular focus is the unique way in which Georgia absorbed the culture and politics of successive invaders from prehistoric times to the Arabs, Seljuks, and Mongols, to the occupation by Tsarist Russia and the Soviets. Already regarded as a classic, this book creates vivid portraits of time and place. ILLUSTRATED.

Author : Numan V. Bartley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820311784

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The Creation of Modern Georgia by Numan V. Bartley Pdf

Examines the persistence and ultimate collapse of Georgia's plantation-oriented colonial society and the emergence of a modern state with greater urbanization, industrialization, and diversification

Author : David Marshall Lang
Publisher : London, Weidenfeld
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Georgia (Republic)
ISBN : UOM:39015000671613

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A Modern History of Soviet Georgia by David Marshall Lang Pdf

Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780230702

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Edge of Empires by Donald Rayfield Pdf

Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, but no comprehensive, up-to-date account has been written about this little-known country—until now. Remedying this omission, Donald Rayfield accesses a mass of new material from recently opened archives to tell Georgia’s absorbing story. Beginning with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ending with the volatile presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Rayfield deals with the country’s internal politics and swings between disintegration and unity, and divulges Georgia’s complex struggles with the empires that have tried to control, fragment, or even destroy it. He describes the country’s conflicts with Xenophon’s Greeks, Arabs, invading Turks, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, the Persian Empire, the Russian Empire, and Soviet totalitarianism. A wide-ranging examination of this small but colorful country, its dramatic state-building, and its tragic political mistakes, Edge of Empires draws our eyes to this often overlooked nation.

Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136825361

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The Literature of Georgia by Donald Rayfield Pdf

The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years' history. It is examined in the context of the extraordinarily diverse influences which affected it - from Greek and Persian to Russian and modern European literature, and the folklore of the Caucasus.

Author : Kenneth Coleman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820304670

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Georgia History in Outline by Kenneth Coleman Pdf

Since it was first published in 1955, Georgia History in Outline has been the standard concise history of the state. The third edition includes a major revision of the chapter on the twentieth century, reflecting in part new information and interpretation on modern Georgia from A History of Georgia and in part the author's personal knowledge of events since the 1920s.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786739629

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Georgia by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

Georgia emerged from the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991 with the promise of swift economic and democratic reform. But that promise remains unfulfilled. Economic collapse, secessionist challenges, civil war and the failure to escape the legacy of Soviet rule - culminating in the 2008 war with Russia - characterise a two-decade struggle to establish democratic institutions and consolidate statehood. Here, Stephen Jones critically analyses Georgia's recent political and economic development, illustrating what its 'transition' has meant, not just for the state, but for its citizens as well. An authoritative and commanding exploration of Georgia since independence, this is essential for those interested in the post-Soviet world.

Author : Stephen F. Jones,Neil MacFarlane
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487507855

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Georgia by Stephen F. Jones,Neil MacFarlane Pdf

This multidisciplinary collection provides a unique insiders' perspective on the major issues in Georgian politics, society, and economics in the twenty-five years since its independence from the Soviet Union.

Author : Kenneth Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0820312681

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A History of Georgia by Kenneth Coleman Pdf

This standard history of the state of Georgia was first published in 1977. Documenting events from the earliest discoveries by the Spanish to the rapid changes undergone during the civil rights era, the book gives broad coverage to the state's social, political, economic and cultural history.

Author : Stephen F. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317815938

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The Making of Modern Georgia, 1918-2012 by Stephen F. Jones Pdf

When most of Eastern Europe was struggling with dictatorships of one kind or another, the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) established a constitution, a parliamentary system with national elections, an active opposition, and a free press. Like the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918, its successors emerged after 1991 from a bankrupt empire, and faced, yet again, the task of establishing a new economic, political and social system from scratch. In both 1918 and 1991, Georgia was confronted with a hostile Russia and followed a pro-Western and pro-democratic course. The top regional experts in this book explore the domestic and external parallels between the Georgian post-colonial governments of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries. How did the inexperienced Georgian leaders in both eras deal with the challenge of secessionism, what were their state building strategies, and what did democracy mean to them? What did their electoral systems look like, why were their economic strategies so different, and how did they negotiate with the international community neighbouring threats. These are the central challenges of transitional governments around the world today. Georgia’s experience over one hundred years suggests that both history and contemporary political analysis offer the best (and most interesting) explanation of the often ambivalent outcomes.

Author : Florian Mühlfried
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382973

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Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia by Florian Mühlfried Pdf

The highland region of the republic of Georgia, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for its beauty. It is often assumed that the state has only made partial inroads into this region, and is mostly perceived as alien. Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the author to consider perennial questions of citizenship, belonging, and mobility in a context that has otherwise been known only for its folkloric dimensions. Scrutinizing forms of identification with the state at its margins, as well as local encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state, the author argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of entitlement and a way of guarding against the state. This book not only challenges theories in the study of citizenship but also the axioms of integration in Western social sciences in general.

Author : Anthony J. Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253006097

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Life Traces of the Georgia Coast by Anthony J. Martin Pdf

Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.

Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253209153

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The Making of the Georgian Nation, Second Edition by Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

". . . 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.

Author : Hubertus Jahn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110663600

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Identities and Representations in Georgia from the 19th Century to the Present by Hubertus Jahn Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume explores various identities and their expressions in Georgia from the early 19th century to the present. It focuses on memory culture, the politics of history, and the relations between imperial and national traditions. It also addresses political, social, cultural, personal, religious, and gender identities. Individual contributions address the imperial scenarios of Russia’s tsars visiting the Caucasus, Georgian political romanticism, specific aspects of the feminist movement and of pedagogical reform projects before 1917. Others discuss the personality cult of Stalin, the role of the museum built for the Soviet dictator in his hometown Gori, and Georgian nationalism in the uprising of 1956. Essays about the Abkhaz independence movement, the political role of national saints, post-Soviet identity crises, atheist sub-cultures, and current perceptions of citizenship take the volume into the contemporary period.

Author : Valeri Silogava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Georgia (Republic)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131875937

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History of Georgia by Valeri Silogava Pdf

Antike - Mittelalter - Neuzeit - Politik - Kirche.