The Making of the Georgian Nation, Second Edition

"... 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.

Preface

Note on Transliteration and Dating

Part One

The Rise and Fall of the Georgian Monarchies

1 The Formation of the Georgian Nation

2 Christian Georgia: The First Thousand Years

3 The Long Twilight of the Georgian Kingdoms

Part Two

Georgia in the Russian Empire

4 Russian Rule and Georgian Society

5 Emancipation anh the End of Seigneurial Georgia

6 Thge Emergence of Political Society

7 Marxism and the National Struggle

8 The End of Tsarist Georgia

Part Three

Revolutionary and Soviet Georgia

9 Revolution and Republic

10 Bolshevik Georgia

11 Stalin's Revolution

12 Stalinism in Georgia

13 Georgia and Soviet Nationality Policy since Stalin

14 The Georgian Road to Independece

Glossary

Notes

Bibliographical Note

Index