Georgia After Stalin

Author : Timothy K. Blauvelt,Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317369783

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Georgia after Stalin by Timothy K. Blauvelt,Jeremy Smith Pdf

This book explores events in Georgia in the years following Stalin’s death in March 1953, especially the demonstrations of March 1956 and their brutal suppression, in order to illuminate the tensions in Georgia between veneration of the memory of Stalin, a Georgian, together with the associated respect for the Soviet system that he had created, and growing nationalism. The book considers how not just Stalin but also his wider circle of Georgians were at the heart of the Soviet system, outlines how greatly Stalin was revered in Georgia, and charts the rise of Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin. It goes on to examine the different strands of the rising Georgian nationalist movements, discusses the repressive measures taken against demonstrators, and concludes by showing how the repressions transformed a situation where Georgian nationalism, the honouring of Stalin’s memory and the Soviet system were all aligned together into a situation where an increasingly assertive nationalist movement was firmly at odds with the Soviet Union.

Author : David Marshall Lang
Publisher : London, Weidenfeld
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Georgia (Republic)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119704588

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A Modern History of Soviet Georgia by David Marshall Lang Pdf

Author : Tinatin Japaridze
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793641878

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Stalin's Millennials by Tinatin Japaridze Pdf

This book examines Joseph Stalin’s increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author argues that, in addition to the evil dictator and the Georgian comrade, there is a third portrayal of Stalin—the one projected by the generation that saw the tail end of the USSR, the post-Soviet millennials. This book is not a biography of one of the most controversial historical figures of the past century. Rather, through a combination of sociopolitical commentary and autobiographical elements that are uncommon in monographs of this kind, the attempt is to explore how Joseph Stalin’s complex legacies and the conflicting cult of his irreconcilable tripartite of personalities still loom over the region as a whole, including Russia and, perhaps to an even deeper extent, Koba’s native land—now the independent Republic of Georgia, caught between its unreconciled Soviet past and the potential future within the European Union.

Author : Nino Haratischvili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922310484

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The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili Pdf

'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness. But she was wrong.' At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified- this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste ... Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the centre of the Russian Revolution in St Petersburg. Stasia's is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century. Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the reader rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends. 'It is a great read. If you love historical sagas and romances, this is the book for you.' -ABC Radio National The Bookshelf 'A harrowing, heartening and utterly engrossing epic novel ... astonishing ... A subtle and compelling translation by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin (on the heels of a Georgian version earlier this year) should make this as great a literary phenomenon in English as it has been in German.' -Maya Jaggi, The Guardian 'If it's a family saga you're seeking, look no further than this grand tale...The author gracefully interweaves the historical backdrop of her novel with the lives of her characters, thus adding depth to her story. Heartily recommended.' STARRED REVIEW -Library Journal

Author : Timothy K. Blauvelt,Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317369790

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Georgia after Stalin by Timothy K. Blauvelt,Jeremy Smith Pdf

This book explores events in Georgia in the years following Stalin’s death in March 1953, especially the demonstrations of March 1956 and their brutal suppression, in order to illuminate the tensions in Georgia between veneration of the memory of Stalin, a Georgian, together with the associated respect for the Soviet system that he had created, and growing nationalism. The book considers how not just Stalin but also his wider circle of Georgians were at the heart of the Soviet system, outlines how greatly Stalin was revered in Georgia, and charts the rise of Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin. It goes on to examine the different strands of the rising Georgian nationalist movements, discusses the repressive measures taken against demonstrators, and concludes by showing how the repressions transformed a situation where Georgian nationalism, the honouring of Stalin’s memory and the Soviet system were all aligned together into a situation where an increasingly assertive nationalist movement was firmly at odds with the Soviet Union.

Author : Claire P. Kaiser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501766800

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Georgian and Soviet by Claire P. Kaiser Pdf

Georgian and Soviet investigates the constitutive capacity of Soviet nationhood and empire. The Soviet republic of Georgia, located in the mountainous Caucasus region, received the same nation-building template as other national republics of the USSR. Yet Stalin's Georgian heritage, intimate knowledge of Caucasian affairs, and personal involvement in local matters as he ascended to prominence left his homeland to confront a distinct set of challenges after his death in 1953. Utilizing Georgian archives and Georgian-language sources, Claire P. Kaiser argues that the postwar and post-Stalin era was decisive in the creation of a "Georgian" Georgia. This was due not only to the peculiar role played by the Stalin cult in the construction of modern Georgian nationhood but also to the subsequent changes that de-Stalinization wrought among Georgia's populace and in the unusual imperial relationship between Moscow and Tbilisi. Kaiser describes how the Soviet empire could be repressive yet also encourage opportunities for advancement—for individual careers as well as for certain nationalities. The creation of national hierarchies of entitlement could be as much about local and republic-level imperial imaginations as those of a Moscow center. Georgian and Soviet reveals that the entitled, republic-level national hierarchies that the Soviet Union created laid a foundation for the claims of nationalizing states that would emerge from the empire's wake in 1991. Today, Georgia still grapples with the legacies of its Soviet century, and the Stalin factor likewise lingers as new generations of Georgians reevaluate the symbiotic relationship between Soso Jughashvili and his native land.

Author : David M. Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Peter Kabachnik,Ana Kirvalidze,Alexi Gugushvili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Georgia (Republic)
ISBN : 9941182566

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Stalin Today by Peter Kabachnik,Ana Kirvalidze,Alexi Gugushvili Pdf

Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691202716

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Stalin by Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

"This biography of the young Stalin is more than the story of how a revolutionary was made: it is the first serious investigation, using the full range of Russian and Georgian archives, to explain Stalin's evolution from a romantic and idealistic youth into a hardened political operative. Suny takes seriously the first half of Stalin's life: his intellectual development, his views on issue of nationalities and nationalism, and his role in the Social Democratic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book narrates an almost tragic downfall; we see Stalin transform from a poor provincial seminarian, who wrote romantic nationalist poetry, into a fearsome and brutal ruler. Many biographers of Stalin turn to shallow psychological analysis in seeking to explain his embrace of revolution, focusing on the beatings he suffered at the hands of his father or his hero-worship of Lenins, or sensationalizing Stalin's involvement in violent activity. Suny seeks to show Stalin in the complex context of the oppressive tsarist police-state in which he lived and debates and party politics that animated the revolutionary circles in which he moved. Though working from fragmentary evidence from disparate sources, Suny is able to place Stalin in his intellectual and political context and reveal, not only a different analysis of the man's psychological and intellectual transformation, but a revisionist history of the revolutionary movements themselves before 1917"--

Author : United Library
Publisher : History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9493311155

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Joseph Stalin: The Biography of a Georgian Revolutionary, Political Leader of the Soviet Union and Red Tsar by United Library Pdf

Interested in learning about one of the most controversial and polarizing political leaders in history? Joseph Stalin was one of the most influential and significant political leaders of the 20th century. He was a Georgian revolutionary who became the leader of the Soviet Union and Red Tsar. This biography tells his story, from his early life as a revolutionary to his time as one of the most powerful men in the world. Joseph Stalin was born in the Georgian town of Gori on December 18, 1878. His real name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, but he later took the name "Stalin," which means "man of steel." Stalin's father was a cobbler and his mother a house cleaner, and they both worked hard to support their family. Stalin did not have an easy childhood; he was often sick and his parents were very poor. Despite these difficulties, Stalin was a bright student and he excelled in school. In 1899, Stalin began studying at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. However, he soon became more interested in revolutionary politics than in religion. He joined a secret revolutionary society called "The People's Will" and became active in the underground resistance movement against the Tsarist regime. In 1902, Stalin was arrested and exiled to Siberia. He escaped soon afterwards and returned to Georgia, where he became a leader of the local Bolshevik party. When the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917, Stalin returned to Russia and quickly rose to power within the Communist Party. Stalin was known for his brutality and totalitarianism, but he also played a significant role in World War II and helped to rebuild Russia after the war. This book provides an in-depth look at this complex figure and offers new insights into his life and legacy. Purchase Joseph Stalin: The Biography of a Georgian Revolutionary, Political Leader of the Soviet Union and Red Tsar today!

Author : Tobias Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107102880

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Soviet Internationalism after Stalin by Tobias Rupprecht Pdf

The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Author : Eric Lee
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786990952

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The Experiment by Eric Lee Pdf

For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the country’s experiment in democratic socialism, detailing the epic, turbulent events of this forgotten chapter in revolutionary history. Along the way, we are introduced to a remarkable cast of characters – among them the men and women who strove for a more inclusive vision of socialism that featured multi-party elections, freedom of speech and assembly, a free press and a civil society grounded in trade unions and cooperatives. Though the Georgian Democratic Republic lasted for just three years before it was brutally crushed on the orders of Stalin, it was able to offer, however briefly, a glimpse of a more humane alternative to the Soviet reality that was to come.

Author : John Baker,Nick Place
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Georgia (Republic)
ISBN : 9781761043666

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Stalin's Wine Cellar by John Baker,Nick Place Pdf

The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. He was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was different to anything John, or his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, had ever come across. The list was discovered to be a comprehensive catalogue of the wine collection of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. The wine had become the property of the state after the Russian Revolution of 1918, during which Nicholas and his entire family were executed. Now owned by Stalin, the wine was discreetly removed to a remote Georgian winery when Stalin was concerned the advancing Nazi army might overrun Russia. Half a century later, the wine was rumoured to be hidden underground and off any known map. John and Kevin embarked on an audacious, colourful and potentially dangerous journey to Georgia to discover if the wines actually existed; if the bottles were authentic and whether the entire collection could be bought and transported to a major London auction house for sale. Stalin's Wine Cellar is a wild, sometimes rough ride through the glamorous world of high-end wine.

Author : Natalie Sabanadze
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 963977653X

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Globalization and Nationalism by Natalie Sabanadze Pdf

Argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are forces of clashing opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these tend to become allied forces. Acknowledges that nationalism does react against the rising globalization and represents a form of resistance against globalizing influences, but the Basque and Georgian cases prove that globalization and nationalism can be complementary rather than contradictory tendencies. Nationalists have often served as promoters of globalization, seeking out globalizing influences and engaging with global actors out of their very nationalist interests. In the case of both Georgia and the Basque Country, there is little evidence suggesting the existence of strong, politically organized nationalist opposition to globalization. Discusses why, on a broader scale, different forms of nationalism develop differing attitudes towards globalization and engage in different relationships.Conventional wisdom suggests that sub-state nationalism in the post-Cold War era is a product of globalization. Sabanadze?s work encourages a rethinking of this proposition. Through careful analysis of the Georgian and Basque cases, she shows that the principal dynamics have little, if anything, to do with globalization and much to do with the political context and historical framework of these cases. This book is a useful corrective to facile thinking about the relationship between the ?global? and the ?local? in the explanation of civil conflict. Neil MacFarlane, Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations and fellow at St. Anne?s College, Oxford University and chair of the Oxford Politics and International Relations Department.

Author : Alfred J. Rieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107074491

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Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia by Alfred J. Rieber Pdf

This is a major re-evaluation of Soviet foreign policy in the Eurasian borderlands from the Revolution to the Cold War.