Identities and Representations in Georgia from the 19th Century to the Present

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2021

Identities and Representations in Georgia from the 19th Century to the Present

Edited by: Hubertus Jahn

Volume 103 in the series Schriften des Historischen Kollegs

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110663600

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A Publication of Historisches Kolleg

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.

Georgian history and culture through an interdisciplinary perspective
New research about identities and representations
Contributions by distinguished scholars from Georgia, Europe and the USA

Author / Editor information

Hubertus Jahn, University of Cambridge.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of content Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Notes on transliteration and spelling Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Hubertus Jahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Past and future of the Stalin museum in Gori Lasha Bakradze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Soviet, national, local? Representations and perceptions of Joseph Stalin as a political and cultural figure in Gori Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Historical debates and the Likhni declaration as a decisive event in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict Malkhaz Toria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
The liminal: Colonial identity on the margins of an empire Nutsa Batiashvili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
National identity and perceptions of citizenship in Georgia over the last decade Natia Mestvirishvili, Maia Mestvirishvili and Tamar Khoshtaria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Georgian nationalism and Soviet power. Between accommodation and revolt Jeremy Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Meaningless people. Atheism, subjectivity and unrepresented identities in Georgia Martin Demant Frederiksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Iakob Gogebashvili and the natural method. Textbooks, modernity and nationalism in the late tsarist periphery Timothy K. Blauvelt and Anton Vacharadze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Old saints and new anxieties. Sainthood and nationhood in modern Georgia Nikoloz Aleksidze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Georgian political romanticism in the Caucasus Zaal Andronikashvili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
The women’s question in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries and Georgia’s national movement Khatuna Gvaradze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Visits of tsars to the Caucasus as representations of empire Hubertus Jahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Index of persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of history, contemporary history, Georgian and Russian History.
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 194
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 10
Keywords: South Caucasus; Russian Empire; Soviet Union; Stalin; National Identity

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110663600

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110659276